Note 3 — The Time of Scholars
Reading edition
With the exception of the ending, this is the sixth test case which was settled by the wise Mahōsadha, in The Jātaka, No. 546 (vol. vi, p. 163);3 but the variations show that, like some other Sinhalese folk-tales, it is not taken over directly from the Jātaka story, which appears to be one of the latest in that collection.