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294. The Bodhisatta On Friendship

Once upon a time, when Brahmadatta was king of Benares, the Bodhisatta was born as a brahmin’s son in Kasi. When he came of age, he renounced the world; he meditates to grow in him the Supernatural Faculties and the Attainments, and he lived in Himalayas with a band of disciples.

One of this band of ascetics disobeyed the voice of the Bodhisatta, and kept a young elephant which had lost its dam. This creature by and by grew big, then killed its master and made off into the forest. The ascetics did his obsequies; and then, coming about the Bodhisatta, they put this question to him.