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200. The Bodhisatta And The Monkey

Once upon a time, when Brahmadatta was reigning in Benares, the Bodhisatta was born in a Brahmin family in a village of Kasi. When he came of years, he received his education at Takkasila, and settled down in life.

His wife gave birth to a son; and when the child could just run to and fro, she died. The the Bodhisatta performed her obsequies, and then, said: “What is home to me now? I and my son will live the life of hermits.” Leaving his friends and relatives in tears, he took the lad to the Himalayas, became a religious anchorite, and lived on the fruits and roots which the forest yielded.