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329. The Lion And The Jackal

Once upon a time, while Brahmadatta was king of Benares, the Bodhisatta was a Lion living in a cave on the hills. One day he came out and saw floods at the mountain-foot. In the middle of the water, there was a grassy field wherein deers and rabbits were eating the grass. “I will have that deer!” thought the Lion; and with a lion’s leap he sprang from the hillside towards it. But the deer, frightened to death, ran away. The Lion could not stop it; down on the mud he fell, and sank in, so that he could not get out; and there he remained for seven days, his feet fixed like four posts, with nothing to eat.