.--Sir William Jones has the name

    Vishnu-sarman

   . He says, further, that the word

    Hitopadesa

   comes from

    hita

   , signifying fortune, prosperity, utility, and

    upadesa

   , signifying advice, the entire word meaning "salutary or amicable instruction."--Ed.

   "Frugality should ever be practised, but not excessive parsimony; for see how a miser was killed by a bow drawn by himself!"

   "How was that?" said Hiranyaca.

   "In the country of Calyanacataca," said Menthara, "lived a mighty hunter, named Bhairaza, or Terrible. One day he went, in search of game, into a forest on the mountains Vindhya; when, having slain a fawn, and taken it up, he perceived a boar of tremendous size; he therefore threw the fawn on the ground, and wounded the boar with an arrow; the beast, horribly roaring, rushed upon him, and wounded him desperately, so that he fell, like a tree stricken with an axe.

   * * * * *

   "In the meanwhile, a jackal, named Lougery, was roving in search of food; and, having perceived the fawn, the hunter, and the boar, all three dead, he said to himself, 'What a noble provision is here made for me!'

   "As the pains of men assail them unexpectedly, so their pleasures come in the same manner; a divine power strongly operates in both.

   "'Be it so; the flesh of these three animals will sustain me a whole month, or longer.

   "'A man suffices for one month; a fawn and a boar, for two; a snake, for a whole day; and then I will devour the bowstring.' When the first impulse 

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