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66. The Bodhisatta – As A Sprite Of Kusa Grass

Once on a time when Brahmadatta was reigning in Benares, the Bodhisatta was born a Sprite in the king’s pleasaunce, and lived in a clump of kusa grass. Now in the same grounds near the king’s seat there grew a beautiful Wishing Tree (also called the Mukkhaka) with straight stem and spreading branches, which received great favour from the king. Here lived one who had been a mighty deva king and had been reborn a Tree sprite. And the Bodhisatta was on terms of intimate friendship with this Tree sprite.