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262. The Bodhisatta As A White Elephant

Once upon a time, when Brahmadatta was king of Benares, there was a village of carpenters in which five hundred carpenters lived. They would go up the river in a vessel, and enter the forest, where they would shape beams and planks for housebuilding. These will be brought down to the river bank, and put them all aboard; then rowing down stream again, they would build houses to order as it was required of them; after which, when they received their wage, they went back again for more materials for the building, and in this way they made their livelihood.