| J.475 |
Phandana Jaataka |
A lion acquired the habit of going to lie under a phandana-tree, but one day a branch
fell on his shoulder, hurting him. The lion thereupon conceived an enmity against
the tree, and when a carpenter came in search of wood for a cartwheel, suggested
to him to cut down the tree. The deity of the tree, discovering this, appeared before
the carpenter and told him that if he placed four inches of lion-hide on the rim
of the wheel, it would enhance its value. The carpenter adopted both suggestions
-- killing the lion and cutting down the tree. This was one of the Jatakas related
by the Buddha in the course of the quarrel between the Sakyans and the Koliyans. |
60/223 |
Jaataka |
Khuddhaka |
J.iv.207ff. |
vengefulness |