Reading Notes: Francis and Thomas. Jataka Tales Part B

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Mosquito. Source: svg.

 The Foolish Friend

  • While Brahmadatta was reigining in Benares, the Bodhisatta gained his livelihood as a trader
  • In those days in Kasi, there dwelt a number of carpenters
  • Of all the carpenters, there was a bald grey-haired man who was chopping up some wood, while his head glistened like a copper bowl, when a mosquito settled on his scalp and stung him
  • The carpenter said to his son, "My boy, there's a mosquito stinging me on the head; do drive it away."
  • The son told him to hold still but the father rushed him
  • The son raised a sharp axe on high with intent to only kill the mosquito, but he cleft his father's head in twain; therefor, the old man fell dead on the spot
  • Bodhisatta saw this and said "Sense-lacking friends are worse than foes with sense; Witness the son that sought the gnat to slay, But cleft, poor fool, his father's skull in twain."

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