With Story 3, _Elephant and ungrateful forester_, compare E. Chavannes, Cinq Cents Contes 28. With Story 4, _Quail, crow, fly, frog, and elephants_, compare R. Schmidt, Panchatantra i. 18. Variants of Stories 5 and 7 form the frame-story of Panchatantra ii. With Story 5, _Quails and fowler_, compare C. H. Tawney, Kathāsaritsāgara ii. 48; J. Hertel, Tantrākhyāyika iii. 11; also Aesop’s fable of the Falconer and the Birds. With Story 7, _Antelope, woodpecker, tortoise, and hunter_, compare Mahābhārata xii. 138; C. H. Tawney, Kathāsaritsāgara i. 296; also Aesop’s fable of the Lion and the Mouse. With Story 6, _Brahmadatta and the prince_, compare E. Chavannes, Cinq Cents Contes 10; also Jātaka 371. With Story 8, _Brahmadatta and Mallika_, compare Mahābhārata iii. 194. With Story 9, _A Buddhist Tar-baby_, compare E. Chavannes, Cinq Cents Contes 89 and 410; also the well-known story in Joel Chandler Harris, Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings. Story 10, _Vedabbha and the thieves_, is the original of Chaucer’s Pardoner’s Tale; compare also A. Schiefner, Tibetan Tales 19. With Story 13, _Blind men and elephant_, compare E. Chavannes, Cinq Cents Contes 86. With Story 14, Part 1, _Gem, hatchet, drum, and bowl_, compare Grimm, Kinder- und Hausmärchen: 36 Tischchen deck dich, Goldesel, und Knüppel aus dem Sack; 54 Der Ranzen, das Hütlein, und das Hörnlein. For additional parallels, see Bolte-Polivka. With Story 15, _A Buddhist Henny-Penny_, compare A. Schiefner, Tibetan Tales 22; also the well-known children’s story of the same name. With Story 19, _Partridge, monkey, and elephant_, compare A. Schiefner, Tibetan Tales 24. With Story 21, _How not to kill an insect_, compare Aesop’s fable of the Bald Man and the Fly. For an interesting account of the history of some of the stories, see W. A. Clouston, _Popular Tales and Fictions_, as follows: Story 2: i. 223-241. Story 9: i. 133-154. Story 10: ii. 379-407. Story 14: i. 110-122. Story 15: i. 289-313. Story 21: i. 55-57. _Note on the Illustrations._ Just fifty years ago Sir Alexander Cunningham discovered among the ruins of a memorial mound or stūpa near the village of Bharahat, 120 miles southwest of Allahabad, a series of sculptures of the third century B.C., illustrating the legendary life of the Buddha and stories from the _Book of the Buddha’s Previous Existences_ or _Jātaka Book_. Photographs of these sculptures, together with a detailed description of each, will be found in the explorer’s monumental work _Stūpa of Bharhut_.