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342. The Roc And The Snake

Once upon a time when Brahmadatta was reigning in Benares, the Bodhisatta was a tree-spirit dwelling in the top of a cotton-tree. A king of the rocs caught the snake king and making the snake disgorge what he had seized in his mouth he flew along the tree tops towards the cotton-tree. The snake-king stuck his hood into a banyan-tree and wound himself round it firmly. In the process banyan-tree was uprooted. Now in that banyan there was a bird, who flew up when the banyan was thrown away, and perched in one of the boughs high on the cotton-tree.