40 SOCIAL SCIENTIST 8. It should be noted that the Jatakas do not represent the only attempt to combine the narrative with the didactic. Other attempts seem to have been made, more or less simultaneously, but from a different perspective, within the epic tradition. The compulsions/contexts which led to such strategies are in themselves worthy of investigation, although they lie beyond the scope of the present paper. 9. Dates for the Manusmrti range from the second century B.C. to the second/fourth century A.D. G. Buhler, (tr) The Laws ofManu, Sacred Books of the East, Vol XXV, Motilal Banarsidass, Delhi, 1964, (reprint 1886), p cxviii, P.V. Kane, History of the Dharmasastra, Vol I, Part, I, Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Poona, 1968, p. 330, and for the Arthasastra between the fourth centuries B.C. and the second century A.D.; R.P. Kangle, The Kautiliya Arthasastra, part II, University of Bombay, 1965, pp. 98-106. 10. All references to the Manusmrti are from G. Jha, (ed and tr) The Manusmrti and the Manubhasya, S vols, Calcutta, 1932-1940, and to the Arthasastra from R.P. Kangle (ed) Kautiliya Arthasastra, Part I, Unversity of Bombay, Bombay, 1960. 11. Compare Arthasastra (IX. 3.14), where the king could imprison or kill a rebellious son if he had another, safer heir. 12. See Kumkum Roy, The King's Household: Structure/Space in the Sastric Tradition, Economic and Political Weekly Vol. XXVII, pp. WS 55-60. 13. Richard Bauman, Story, Performance, Event, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1986,.p. 4.