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251. The Bodhisatta And Tree-Spirit

Once upon a time when Brahmadatta was reigning in Benares, the Bodhisatta was born in a Brahmin family. When he grew up he learned all the arts at Takkasila, and then returning lived as a householder. After a time he left his house and became an ascetic; soon he reached the Faculty of Meditation, and living in the Himalaya quarter in the standing and walking attitudes only, he walked all night without sleeping. A spirit who lived in a tree at the end of his walk was pleased with him and spoke putting a question to him from a hole in the trunk:–