ABSTRACT
IN very remote times, in a forest region free from villages and richly provided with flowers, fruits, water, and roots, there hved a penance-performing Rishi, who fed upon roots, fruit, and water, and clothed himself with lewes and skins.As he had attained the five kinds of insight, the Wild gazelles themselves were wont to dwell in the hermit- age keeping him company.One day a gazelle doe came to a spot where he had lately been. And as the results of human actions are beyond mental comprehension it came to pass that she became pregnant.When the time came for her to bring forth, she went to that place and there gwe birth to a boy. When she had smelt it, and perceived that it was a creature that did not resemble herself, she was terrified, and deserted it.When the Rishi came to that place and saw the child, he began to consider whose child it could be, and perceived that it was his own child. So he took it with him into his hermitage and there brought it up. When the boy had grown up, gazelle horns appeared on his head, on which account the Rishi gwe him the name of ?shyaśringa (Gazelle-horn).
