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218. The Bodhisatta And The Ram

Once upon a time the Bodhisatta was born in a merchant family and doing his trade. At that time a religious mendicant, clad in a leather garment, in going his rounds for alms, came to the rams’ fighting ground. On seeing a ram falling back before him, he thought that ram is paying respect to him. He thought, “In the whole world, this ram alone recognizes my merits,” and raising his joined hands in respectful salutation he stood and repeated the first stanza: