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312. The Crow And The Quail

Once upon a time when Brahmadatta wsas reigning in Benares, the Bodhisatta was born as a quail and lived in the forest on rude grass and seeds. At the time there was in Benares a greedy crow who, not content with carcases of elephants and other animals, went to the forest in hopes of better food: eating woks fruits there he saw the Bodhisatta and thinking “This quail is very fat; I think he eats sweet food; I will ask him what he eats and by eating it I will become fat myself.” He perched on a bough above the Bodhisatta. The Bodhisatta, without being asked, gave him greeting and spoke:–