Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c5.t4.122

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⁷ J., I, p. 110; II, pp. 111, 128; III, p. 280; IV, pp. 2, 142; V, p. 75; VI, p. 34. An interesting thing to be noticed in this connection is the precautions taken just before the ship-wreck: once when the ship was about to sink, the man on board ate sugar and ghee and then smeared his garments with oil (mattasāṭaka telena makkhitvā) and put them tightly round him and stood leaning against the mast. J., VI, p. 34. The oil-soaked robe could resist the slow freezing of the body: "The competitors in swimming even today do not act otherwise:" S. Levi, *I. H. Q.*, VI, p. 606.