Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ...became disciples of the brahman Udraka and then followed the Lord as his first adherents (!). 3, 4 and 5 from the fourth corner (37, 38, 39 W. L.). At one time the Lord was a royal prince, the son of the good and wise king of the Shibis, Samjaya. Riding upon his famous white elephant, he was met by some brahmans, who desired him to give up the noble animal for another king, their master. The prince grants their request. The courtiers persuade his father to banish the prince on account of this deed; and mounting his princely carriage with Madri, his wife, and their two children, he leaves home. Some other brahmans, met on his way, ask him for his splendid horses. The prince, leaving the horses to them, is going to draw the carriage himself. Another brahman begs for the carriage, and all alight and continue their journey on foot, the prince carrying their little son, the mother their daughter. Trees do homage to them by bending down their branches, ponds covered with lotus-flowers supply them with water to drink, and clouds give them shade; in this way they reach a spot in the mountains, where Indra himself has prepared a bower for them. One day, the mother having gone out into the wood to gather roots and fruit for their dinner, a brahman came and demanded the prince's children, who were bound and carried away. The mother, on her return, is inconsolable. An earthquake has caught the attention of Indra in heaven, who, upon hearing of its cause, assumes the shape of another brahman and asks the exile to give up his wife. Notwithstanding her entreaties she too is yielded by the prince, but then Indra makes himself known to both and reinstates the prince in the possession of all he lost and in his rank at the court of his father. 3 shows the...
