Tag Archives: The Bodhisatta And The Deer Hunter

159. The Bodhisatta And The Deer Hunter

Once upon a time when Brahmadatta reigned in Benares, the Bodhisatta was born as the son of a wealthy merchant.

One day, a hunter killed a deer and filled his cart with the meat, returned to the city with the intention of selling it. At this time four sons of rich merchants who were living in Benares came out of the city, and meting at a cross road they sat down and conversed with one another about whatever they had seen or heard. One of these youths on seeing the cart full of meat proposed to go and get a piece of venison from the hunter. The others asked him to go and try. So he went up to the hunter, and said, “Hi, Sirrah! give me a piece of meat.”