3.
The Chapter on the Well
271.
The Well Spoiler Birth Story (3-3-1)
61.
The well made with difficulty, how, my dear, did you defile it?
62.
This is the nature of fathers and grandfathers, you should not forsake it.
63.
May we never see your Teaching or not the Teaching.
The Well Spoiler Birth Story is the first.
272.
The Tiger Birth Story (3-3-2)
64.
A wise one should guard against being overcome by him beforehand, as one guards one's eyes from a tree.
65.
A wise one should provide livelihood equal to oneself in all duties.
66.
Let not the forest be cut down, tigerless, let not the tigers be without forest.
The Tiger Birth Story is the second.
273.
The Tortoise Birth Story (3-3-3)
67.
Where did you go for almsfood, which faithful one did you approach?
68.
Release me, venerable sir, freed I would go to the mountain.
69.
Release, Kassapa, the Koṇḍañña, sexual intercourse has been done by you.
The Tortoise Birth Story is the third.
274.
The Greedy Birth Story (3-3-4)
70.
Come down here, crane, my friend the crow is fierce."
71.
Not having heeded your word, see, I have come back reaped."
72.
For human wealth is not easily enjoyed by birds.
The Greedy Birth Story is the fourth.
275.
The Pleasant Birth Story (3-3-5)
73.
The fierce crow is my friend, whose nest this is.
74.
Not having heeded your word, see, I have come back reaped."
75.
For human wealth is not easily enjoyed by birds.
The Pleasant Birth Story is the fifth.
276.
The Kuru Dhamma Birth Story (3-3-6)
76.
We bartered your praise with the collyrium-coloured one, in Kāliṅga.
77.
All of them should not be refused, this is the word of the first teachers.
78.
Adorned, covered with a golden net, with its driver - go wherever you wish.
The Kuru Dhamma Birth Story is the sixth.
277.
The Romaka Birth Story (3-3-7)
79.
Without hesitation, with perfectly calmed minds, these egg-born ones used to come within reach of my hand before.
80.
Surely they do not regard me as before, or perhaps these are not those who dwelt away for a long time.
81.
And your mind is corrupted towards these people, for livelihood, therefore we are frightened of you.
The Romaka Birth Story is the seventh.
278.
The Buffalo King Birth Story (3-3-8)
82.
As if from one who gives all desires, do you endure this suffering?
83.
Fools would become even more angry, if there were no one to restrain them.
84.
They will kill him there, that will be my freedom."
The Buffalo King Birth Story is the eighth.
279.
The Hundred-Petalled Birth Story (3-3-9)
85.
One who is well-wishing, making known, he imagines as ill-wishing;
The ill-wishing woodpecker, he imagines as well-wishing.
86.
Spoken to with words by those wishing his welfare, he takes them wrongly.
87.
He imagines them to be friends, like the young man with the woodpecker.
The Hundred-Petalled Birth Story is the ninth.
280.
The Basket-Spoiler Birth Story (3-3-10)
88.
For thus he spoils the basket, surely he will make another.
89.
Whatever is done, we indeed spoil it, this family is of such nature.
90.
May we never see your Teaching or not the Teaching.
The Basket-Spoiler Birth Story is the tenth.
The Well Chapter is the third.
Its summary:
Virtuous Man, Lord, Hairy, Spoiler, again, Lotus, Excellent, Basket Deed - ten.