Reading Notes: Jataka Tales, Part B

The Buddha as a Monkey

     Bibliography. Eastern Stories and Legends by Marie Shedlock. Web Source

     Reading Notes:

     *A Monkey King saves his herd of 80,000 from a water-ogre.

     *A merchant strikes water and saves his carts in a desert. 

     *A Minister saves a King's old Elephant from being yolked. 

     *A Brahmin is reborn as a Golden Mallard.

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