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The Chapter on Grass-Clump

211.

The Birth Story of Somadatta (2-7-1)

121.

He practised diligently, constantly heedful, for a year at the bīraṇa grass bush;

Having entered the assembly, he explained the perception, but the method does not protect one lacking wisdom.

122.

A beggar, dear son, Somadatta, undergoes two things;

Either loss or gain of wealth, for such is the nature of begging.

The Birth Story of Somadatta is the first.

212.

The Birth Story of Ucchiṭṭhabhatta (2-7-2)

123.

The upper appearance is one, and the lower appearance is another;

Brahmin woman, I ask you indeed, what is below and what is above?

124.

"I am an actor, venerable sir, I have come here as a beggar;

For this one has descended into the store-room, this is he whom you seek."

The Birth Story of Ucchiṭṭhabhatta is the second.

213.

The Birth Story of Bharu (2-7-3)

125.

Having made a breach among the seers, the king of Bharu, thus have I heard;

Was destroyed together with his kingdom, the king gone to ruin.

126.

Therefore, the wise do not praise going by desire;

One should speak with an uncorrupted mind, a word connected with truth.

The Birth Story of Bharu is the third.

214.

The Birth Story of Puṇṇanadī (2-7-4)

127.

By which they call a full river drinkable, by which they call grown barley concealing;

By which they call one gone far, he has come to you, come now, eat, brahmin.

128.

Since the king remembers me, even to send a crow;

Swans, herons, and peacocks, not remembering is indeed worse.

The Birth Story of Puṇṇanadī is the fourth.

215.

The Birth Story of the Tortoise (2-7-5)

129.

Indeed the tortoise killed himself, uttering a word;

While the stick was well-grasped, by his own speech he killed himself.

130.

Having seen this too, O foremost in energy among men, one should utter wholesome speech, not excessively;

Do you see, through much talking, the tortoise gone to disaster."

The Tortoise Jātaka, the fifth.

216.

The Birth Story of the Fish (2-7-6)

131.

This fire does not torment me, nor the stake well-sharpened;

But that the she-fish imagines me gone to another for delight.

132.

That fire of lust burns me, and my mind torments me;

O fishermen, release me, masters, one pursuing sensual pleasures is not destroyed anywhere."

The Fish Jātaka is the sixth.

217.

The Birth Story of Seggu (2-7-7)

133.

The whole world was delighted, unskilled in vile conduct, Seggu;

Maiden, what is this nature of yours today, that you, taken by the hand in the forest wilds, cry out?

134.

He who would be a shelter for one touched by suffering, my father, commits treachery in the forest;

To whom shall I cry out in the midst of the forest, he who was my protector commits violence.

The Birth Story of Seggu is the seventh.

218.

The Birth Story of the Dishonest Trader (2-7-8)

135.

This fraudulence of the fraudulent one is well thought out, a counter-trick cast back against the trickster;

If mice would eat the ploughshare, why would hawks not carry off the boy?

136.

For a fraudster there are counter-fraudsters, and there is also fraud for the fraudulent one;

Give the ploughshare to the one whose ploughshare is lost, O you whose son is lost, lest the one whose ploughshare is lost take your son.

The Birth Story of the Dishonest Trader is the eighth.

219.

The Birth Story of Garahita (2-7-9)

137.

"Unwrought gold is mine, gold is mine," this is the talk night and day;

Of imprudent human beings, not seeing the noble teaching.

138.

Two householders in each house, one there without a beard;

With hanging breasts, with braided hair, and also with marked ears;

Bought with much wealth, he prods the people, they say.

The Birth Story of Garahita is the ninth.

220.

The Birth Story of Dhammadhaja (2-7-10)

139.

You seem to have lived in happiness, having come from the country to the forest;

Yet alone at the foot of a tree, you brood like a miserable wretch.

140.

You seem to have lived in happiness, having come from the country to the forest;

Yet alone at the foot of a tree, I brood like a miserable wretch;

Recollecting the Teaching of the virtuous."

The Birth Story of Dhammadhaja is the tenth.

The Bīraṇathambha Chapter is the seventh.

Its summary:

Then Bīraṇa, Thambha, Excellent, and Actor, Bharu, King, Excellent, Best, Puṇṇa, River;

Talkative, Fire, Wilds, Mouse, with Hanging, Breast, with Miserable Wretch - these are ten.

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