[106] The British Museum copy of the first, undated, edition has the date 1539 written, in ink, on the title-page. Rosweyd, in Note 4 to his edition of Billius (Migne, vol. lxxiii, p. 606), mentions an edition bearing the date 1548. In the British Museum there is a third, dated 1575 (on the last page). [107] These two Jatakas also form the contents of a separate MS. in the Royal Asiatic Society’s Library (Catalogue, p 14). [108] Translated below, pp. 205, and foll. This is one of those which General Cunningham was unable to identify. [109] General Cunningham says (p. 52): “The former [Nāga Jātaka, _i.e._ Elephant Jātaka] is the correct name, as in the legend here represented Buddha is the King of the Elephants, and therefore the Jātaka, or Birth, must of necessity have been named after him.” As I have above pointed out (p. xli), the title of each Jātaka, or Birth Story, is chosen, not by any means from the character which the Bodisat fills in it, but indifferently from a variety of other reasons. General Cunningham himself gives the story called Isī-singga Jātaka (No. 7 in the above list), in which the ascetic after whom the Jātaka is named is not the Bodisat. [110] Not as yet found in the Jātaka Book; but Dr. Bühler has shown in the ‘Indian Antiquary,’ vol. i. p. 305, that it is the first tale in the ‘Vrihat Kathā’ or Kshemendra (Table I. No. 34), and in the ‘Kathā Sarit Sāgara’ of Somadeva (Table I. No. 33), and was therefore probably included in the ‘Vrihat Kathā’ of Guṇadhya (Table I. No. 32). [111] The part of the stone supposed to have contained the inscription is lost. [112] Translated below, pp. 292, 293. [113] It is mentioned below, p. 128, and is included in the Mahāvastu (Table V.), and forms the subject of the carving on one of the rails at Buddha Gayā (Rajendra Lāl Mitra, pl. xxxiv. fig. 2). [114] Not as yet found in the Jātaka Book. [115] Translated below, pp. 186-188. See also above, p. lxiv. [116] There are four distinct bas-reliefs illustrative of this Jātaka. [117] General Cunningham’s reading of this inscription as _Bhagavato rukdanta_ seems to me to be incorrect, and his translation of it (’Buddha as the sounding elephant’) to be grammatically impossible. [118] Lit. perfected the vast constituents of Buddhahood, the Pāramitās are meant. [119] Lit. in thousands of koṭis of births; a koṭi is ten millions. [120] The above lines in the original are in verse. I have found it impossible to follow the arrangement of the stanzas, owing to the extreme involution of the style. [121] An asankheyya is a period of vast duration, lit. an incalculable. [122] Lit. “caused the drums to be beat.” [123] Here a gloss in the text enumerates the whole ten cries. [124] The Bodhisatta is frequently called paṇḍita, e.g. _sasapaṇḍito_ (Five Jāt. 52), _Rāmapaṇḍito_ (Dasaratha Jāt. 1). [125] Lit. “Extinction.” [126] Mr. Fausböll points out to me that in _tividhaggi_ and _jāti_ we have Vedic abbreviations.