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241. The Bodhisatta And The Tree Deity

Once upon a time when Brahmadatta was reigning in Benares, the Bodhisatta was born in a brahmin family of a village in Kasi; when he grew up he learned the arts at Takkasila, and afterwards became an ascetic and lived near a lotus-pol. One day he went down into the pool and stood smelling a lotus. A goddess who was living in a hollow trunk of a tree alarming him and spoke:–