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156. The Bodhisatta And The Cripple

Once upon a time when Brahmadatta was reigning in Benares, the Bodhisatta was one of the king’s courtiers. And the royal chaplain of those days was so talkative that, when he once started, no one else could get a word in. So the King cast about for someone to cut the chaplain short, and looked high and low for such an one.

Now at that time there was a cripple in Benares who was a wonderful marksman with stones. The boys used to put him on a little cart and draw him to the gates of Benares, where there is a large banyan tree covered with leaves.