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The Mongoose

Nakulajātaka

“Creature, your egg-born enemy”—This story the Master told during a sojourn at Jetavana, about two officers who had a quarrel. The circumstances have been given above in the Uraga Birth.

Pāli: Mahāsaṅgīti Tipiṭaka · Public domain (CC0) via SuttaCentral

0.45. Nakulajātaka

1.1PTS 2.53“Sandhiṁ katvā amittena,1.2aṇḍajena jalābuja;1.3Vivariya dāṭhaṁ sesi,1.4kuto te bhayamāgataṁ”.

2.1“Saṅketheva amittasmiṁ,2.2mittasmimpi na vissase;2.3Abhayā bhayamuppannaṁ,2.4api mūlāni kantatī”ti.

3.1Nakulajātakaṁ pañcamaṁ.