The Jataka Or Stories of the Buddhas Former Births volume 2
The Jataka Or Stories of the Buddhas Former Births volume 2
Edward B Edward Byles Cowell
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" [188] " How can we put him to death without having found him out in some great wickedness ? " "There is a way, " said the other. "What way?" " Tell him to do what is impossible, and if he cannot, put him to death for that. " " But what is impossible to him 1 " "My lord king, " replied he, "it takes two years or twice two for a garden with good soil to bear fruit, being planted and tended. Send you for him, and say — ' We want a garden to disport ourselves in to-morrow. Make us a garden ! ' Th...is he will not be able to do ; and we will slay him for that fault. " The king addressed himself to the Bodhisatta. " Wise Sir, we have sported long enough in our old garden ; now we crave to sport in a new. Make us a garden ! If you cannot make it, you must die. " The Bodhisatta reasoned, " It must be that Kalaka has set the king against me, becau. Se he gets no presents. — If I can, " he said to the king, " O mighty king, I will see to it. " And he went home. After a good meal he lay upon his bed, thinking.
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