| J.218 |
Ku.tavaa.nija Jaataka |
A villager once deposited five hundred ploughshares with a friend in the town, but
when he came to retreive them, he was told that they had been eaten by mice, and
was shown the dung the mice had left behind. Some time later, the villager took his
friend’s son to bathe, hid him in the house, and reported to the townsman that the
boy had been carried off by a hawk. When he was taken before a judge, who was the
Bodhisatva, he protested that in a place where mice could eat ploughshares, a hawk
could easily carry off a boy. The Bodhisatva settled the dispute. The introductory
story is similar to at Ku.tavaa.nija
Jaataka (J.098). |
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Jaataka |
Khuddhaka |
J.ii.181ff. |
deceit, cheat |