ABSTRACT
A VERY long time ago, it once rained unseasonably seven days long, and an ichneumon took refuge in a mouse-bole. Into the same hole came, after wandering to and fro, a snake, alarmed by the rain. Now the ichneumon was preparing to kill the mouse, but the snake said, ” 0 hon- oured ones, as we have all suffered from the agony of intolerable woe, therefore we ought to remain here with- out exposing each other to danger and free from disturb- ance.” The snake was named Nandasena, the ichneumon Nanda, and the mouse Gaṇgādatta.
