| J.123 |
Na"ngaliisa Jaataka |
Once the bodhisatva was a brahmin teacher, and among his 500 pupil was a foolish
but devoted youth, who had a knack of saying the wrong thing. Hoping to cure him,
the bodhisatva asked him to report anything which he saw. One day the youth saw a
snake, and on being asked by the bodhisatva how it looked, reported ëlike the shaft
of a ploughí (na"ngalisa) The bodhisatva thought the simile was good, but when
it was used again about an elephant, a sugar cane, molasses and even curds and milk,
he realized the boy was hopeless. The story was told in reference to Laludayi, who
never made an appropriate remark. Laludayi is identified with the youth. |
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Khuddhaka |
J.i.446ff. |
appropriate speech |