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The Kathá Sarit Ságara

Note 8 — Chapter XIX

C. H. (Charles Henry) Tawney translation

One of these poison-damsels is represented as having been employed against Chandragupta in the Mudrá Rákshasa. Compare the XIth tale in the Gesta Romanorum, where an Indian queen sends one to Alexander the Great. Aristotle frustrates the stratagem.

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