| J.370 |
Palaasa Jaataka |
Once the bodhisatva was a golden goose living in Cittaguta. On his way to and fro
from the Himalaya, he rested in a palasa-tree and a friendship sprang up between
himself and the residing tree-sprite. One day a bird dropped a banyan seed in the
fork of the palasa-tree from which a sapling sprang. The goose advised the sprite
to remove it, but the sprite paid no heed and, eventually the banyan grew and destroyed
the palasa. The story was related by the Buddha to the monks in order to illustrate
that defilements should be uprooted however small they may be. |
58/841 |
Jaataka |
Khuddhaka |
J.iii.208ff. |
seeing danger in small things |