Ekakanipāta

The Book of the Ones

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Jātaka

Stories of Past Lives 22

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Ekakanipāta

The Book of the Ones

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Kuruṅgavagga

The Four-horned Antelope

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2. Kukkurajātaka

Hounds: a past life story

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“Ye kukkurā rājakulamhi vaddhā,

The hounds raised in the royal family,

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Koleyyakā vaṇṇabalūpapannā;

pedigreed, handsome and strong,

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Teme na vajjhā mayamasma vajjhā,

are not slaughtered, we are slaughtered—

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Nāyaṁ saghaccā dubbalaghātikāyan”ti.

this is not the dogs deserving death, <j>this is the killing of the weak.

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Kukkurajātakaṁ dutiyaṁ.