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278. The Bodhisatta As Parrot King

Once upon a time, a king named King Magadha reigned in Rajagaha. At that time there was a brahmin village, named salindiya, towards the north-east as you go out of the city. In this northeastern district was property belonging to Magadha. There was a brahmin who lived in Salindiya, whose name was Kosiyagotta, and he held an estate of one thousand acres, where he grew rice. When the crop was standing, he made a stout fence, and gave the land in charge to his own men, to one fifty acres, to another sixty, and so he distributed among them some five hundred he delivered to a hired man for a wage, and the man made a hut there and lived there day and night. Now to the north-east of this estate was a certain great wood of silk-cotton tree, growing upon the flat top of a hill, and in this wood lived a great number of parrots.