NONAME-Jātaka2

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Source: Adapted from Archaic Translation by W.H.D. Rouse
JATAKA No. 275

"Who is this pretty Crane," etc.--This story the Master told at Jetavana monastery about some greedy Brother(Monk). The two stories are just the same as the last. And these are the verses:-

"Who is this pretty Crane, and why Does he in my Crow's basket lie?  An angry bird, my friend the Crow!  This is his nest, I'd have you know!"

"Do you not know me, friend, indeed? Together we were used to feed!  I would not do as I was told,  So now I'm plucked, as you see."

"You'll come to grief again, I know-- It is your nature to do so.  When people make a dish of meat  It is not for little birds to eat."

As before, the Bodhisattva said--"I can't live here any more," and flew away some where.

When this discourse was ended, the Master explained the truths and identified the Birth:-at the conclusion of the Truths, the greedy Brother(Monk) attained the Fruit of the Third Path(Trance):-"The greedy Brother was the Crow, and I was the Pigeon."