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306. The Brammadatta And His Minister

Once upon a time when Brahmadatta was reigning in Benares, he appointed a Minister to be headman of a border village. Now in those days the Bodhisatta was making the round of the border villages in the way of trade, and had taken up his house in that very village. And when the headman was marching his men back at evening with beating drums, he exclaimed, “Scoundrel! He waited till the robbers go away. He is having collaboration with the robbers who loot the village. And now, as if nothing has happened, he is strolling with beating drums. And, so saying, he uttered this stanza:-