Note 175 — Appendix. VARIANTS AND ANALOGUES OF THE TALES IN THE SUPPLEMENTAL NIGHTS, VOL. III. (continued 3)
Richard Francis Burton translation
This strange notion may have been derived from some Eastern source, since it occurs in Indian fictions; for example, in Dr. Rájendralála Mitra’s “Sanskrit Buddhist Literature of Nepál,” p. 304, we read that “there lived in the village of Vásava a rich householder who had born unto him a son with a jewelled ring in his ear.” And in the “Mahábhárata” we are told of a king who had a son from whose body issued nothing but gold—the prototype of the gold-laying goose.