| J.062 |
A.n.dabhuuta Jaataka |
On the innate wickedness of women. A girl is bred from infancy among women only,
never seeing any man but her husband, the kingís chaplain. The latter had embarked
on the enterprise of so bringing up the girl in order to defeat the king at dice
because the king was in the habit of winning by a declaration of truth to the effect
that all women were treacherous. The chaplain wanted to find an exception in order
to falsify the declaration. For a time the experiment succeeds, but later, as a result
of the kingís scheming, the girl starts an intrigue with a flower-seller as lover
and is discovered. The Jataka is so called because the woman in the story was guarded
from the time she lay in her motherís womb as a foetus. |
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Jaataka |
Khuddhaka |
J.i.289ff. |
women, passion |