| J.227 |
Guuthapaa.na Jaataka | Guuthapaa.naka Jaataka |
A dung-beetle drank some liquor dropped by merchants staying in a rest-house and
returned to his dung-heap intoxicated. An elephant who came up and smelled the dung
was disgusted with the beetle and went away. The beetle thought he had frightened
the elephant away and called after him challenging him to a fight. The elephant returned,
and urinating and defecating on the beetle, killed him. The Jataka was told in reference
to a monk who quelled the pride of a troublemaker. The latter used to molest monks
who went for alms to a village near Jetavana, asking them insolent questions and
insulting them so much that monks were reluctant to go there. One day, a monk, stronger
than the rest, enticed the man out of the village, felled him with one blow, and
threatened to teach him another lesson if he did not cease pestering the monks. After
that the man fled at the sight of a monk. |
57/410 |
Jaataka |
Khuddhaka |
J.ii.209ff. |
alcohol, insulting monks |