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A Lesson for Kings

Source.--Rajovada Jataka, Fausbøll, No. 151, tr. Rhys-Davids, pp. xxii.-vi.

Remarks.--This is one of the earliest of moral allegories in existence. The moralising tone of the Jatakas must be conspicuous to all reading them. Why, they can moralise even the Tar Baby (see infra, Note on "Demon with the Matted Hair," No. xxv.).