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110. The Bodhisatta – The Monkey King

There was a thick forest. A lake was there in the forest. A water-ogre lived in it. It used to devour everyone who went down into the water.

In those days the Bodhisatta had come to life as the king of the monkeys. He was as big as the fawn of a read deer. He lived in that forest as the head of eighty thousand monkeys; he shielded them from harm. He counselled his subjects:- “My friends, in this forest there are trees that are poisonous and lakes that are haunted by ogres. Mind to ask me first before you either eat any fruit which you have not eaten before, or drink of any water where you have not drunk before .”