Category Archives: INDIA

21. SILENCE AND SPEAKING

Once upon a time, when Brahmadatta was king of Benares, his chaplain was tawny-brown and had lost all his teeth. His wife committed sin with another brahmin. This man was just like the other. The chaplain tried times and again to restrain his wife, but could not. Then he thought, “This my enemy; I cannot kill with my own hands; but I must devise some plan to kill him.”

20. Shaft Of A Plough

Once upon a time when Brahmadatta was reigning in Benares, the Bodhisatta was born in a rich brahmin’s family. When he grew up, he was well versed in all knowledge and was a world renowned professor with five hundred young brahmins to instruct.

19. Setaketu And The Ascetics

Once upon a time when Brahmadatta was king in Benares, the Bodhisatta was a far-famed teacher and taught the sacred texts to five hundred pupils. The senior of them, Setaketu by name, was born of a brahmin family, and was very proud on account of his caste. One day he went out of the town with other pupils, and when coming again he saw a candala.

18. Sacrifice

Once on a time in the Kasi country a man from a little village had promised a sacrifice to the Fairy of a banyan-tree which stood at the entrance to the village. Afterwards when he returned, he slew a number of creatures and betook himself to the tree to get released form his vow. But the Three-Fairy, standing in the fork of tree, repeated this stanza:-