Note 4 — The Time of Scholars

There was a village, apparently of Vaeddās, called Dippiṭigama, in the North-western Province4; and “the house of the Dippiṭiyās,5 at the village called Koṭikāpola” is mentioned in the story numbered 215 in this volume, related by a Tom-tom Beater. This latter tale apparently contains a large amount of fact, and ends “the persons who saw these [things said] they are in the form of a folk-tale.” Thus there is a possibility that this part of the Jātaka story is derived from a Sinhalese folk-tale of which the Potter’s story gives the modern version.