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69. The Bodhisatta – As A Vulture feeding Parents

Once upon a time when Brahmadatta was reigning in Benares, the Bodhisatta was born of a vulture. When he grew up, his parents became old and dim of eye. He put in a vulture’s cave and fed them by bringing them flesh of cows and the like. At the time a hunter laid snares for vultures in the cemetery. One day the Bodhisatta seeking for flesh came to the cemetery and caught his foot in the snares. He did not think of himself, but remembered his old parents. “How will my parents live now? I think they will die, ignorant that I am caught, helpless and destitute, wasting away in that hill-cave.”