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139. The Bodhisatta And His Ungrateful Wife

Once upon a time, in the reign of Brahmadatta, king of Benares, the Bodhisatta was born in Kasi as a householder’s son and coming of age he married and settled down. Now his wife was a wicked woman, and she intrigued with the village headman. The Bodhisatta came to understand this, and thought how to put her to test.

At that time all the grain had been carried away during the floods; and afterwards there was a famine. But it was the time when the corn had just sprouted, and all the villagers came together, and sought help of their headman, saying, “Two months from now, when we have harvested the grain, we will pay you in kind” so they got an old ox from him, and ate it.