Monday, November 9, 2015

Reading Diary A Week 12: Twenty Jataka Tales

The Monkey-Bridge:

  • The lesson is for rulers to love out of love for their subjects, not because they have the biggest sword
  • King Brahmadatta 
The Guilty Dogs 
  • All the dogs were ordered to be killed for something the royal dogs had done (who were the only ones to be spared) 
  • Dog chief reasons with king and proves palace dogs guilty 
Banyan 
  • Banyan-King of Deer (Golden Deer)
  • He offers himself as a sacrifice to a gluttonous king in order to spare a mother who has a young daughter. By doing this the King finds love and spares the lives of all animals in the woods. 
The Tortoise and the Geese 
  • A king learns who to hold his tongue 
The Fairy and the Hare 
  • The hare is rewarded for his pure intentions and honesty while his friends do the wrong things for the right reason 
The Young Parrot 
  • The young parrot is able to take rice from a farmers land after he tells him why he is taking it. 
  • Good deeds are often rewarded 
Swan Kingdom
  • King of Benares- same king from Monkey Bridge story 
  • King Dhritarashtra- king of swans 
The Master's Test 
  • What matters is what you do when nobody is watching

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"There is no place wherein nobody is watching"- Twenty Jataka Tales 


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