Note 10 — Note on Chapter XIII.

A precisely similar story occurs in the Bahár Dánish. The turn of the chief incident, although not the same, is similar to that of Nov VII, Part 4 of Bandello’s Novelle, or the Accorto Avvedimento di una Fantesca à liberare la padrona e l’ innamorato di quella de la morte. (Wilson’s Essays, Vol. I, p. 224.) Cp. also the Mongolian version of the story in Sagas from the Far East, p. 320. The story of Śaktimatí is the 19th in the Śuka Saptati. I have been presented by Professor Nílmani Mukhopádhyáya with a copy of a MS. of this work made by Babu Umeśa Chandra Gupta.