The text of the Jaiminiya legend of Cyavana is built around the myth of the Fountain of Youth. Every region around the world has a version of this myth. Whether India was the real source of the story, the author will presently inquire. The simplest and most common means of securing rejuvenation is to ask for and get it. This method implies a well-known principle of magic, in accordance with which the old life must be sacrificed that the new life may emerge. Thus far the Fountain of Youth has been traced in general to the East, where it was located by trouveres, and in particular to India, where it was located in the twelfth century. E. Washburn Hopkins is inclined to regard India as the home of the fable, but to consider the fable as brought by the early Nestorians whom it might have reached Syria.