| J.219 |
Garahita Jaataka |
Once the Bodhisatva was a monkey in the Himalayas, and having been captured by a
forester, was given to the king. The king grew fond of him, and the monkey learned
the ways of men. The king set him free, and when his fellows saw him, they insisted
on hearing from him how men lived. He told them of the men’s greed for possessions,
and how in each house there were two masters, one of them beardless, with long breasts
and plaited hair. The monkeys, hearing of this folly, stopped their ears and went
elsewhere, saying that they could not bear to live in a place where they had heard
such unseemly things! That place came thereafter to be called the Garahitapittipasana.
The story was told in reference to a discontented monk. |
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Jaataka |
Khuddhaka |
J.ii.184ff. |
human folly |