| J.117 |
Tittira Jaataka |
The bodhisatva was once a leader of five-hundred ascetics. One day a talkative ascetic
approached a jaundiced colleague who was chopping wood and worried him by giving
him directions on how to do it. The ill man killed him with one blow of the axe.
Soon afterwards, a partridge who used to sing on an anthill nearby, was killed by
a fowler. The bodhisatva pointed out to followers how the death of both were due
to their talking too much. The story was told in reference to Kokalika who is identified
with the chattering ascetic. |
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Jaataka |
Khuddhaka |
J.i.431ff. |
idle chatter |