2. Kukkurajātaka

Hounds: a past life story

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0.1

Jātaka

Stories of Past Lives 22

0.2

Ekakanipāta

The Book of the Ones

0.3

Kuruṅgavagga

The Four-horned Antelope

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2. Kukkurajātaka

Hounds: a past life story

1.1

“Ye kukkurā rājakulamhi vaddhā,

The hounds raised in the royal family,

1.2

Koleyyakā vaṇṇabalūpapannā;

pedigreed, handsome and strong,

1.3

Teme na vajjhā mayamasma vajjhā,

are not slaughtered, we are slaughtered—

1.4

Nāyaṁ saghaccā dubbalaghātikāyan”ti.

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

2.1

Kukkurajātakaṁ dutiyaṁ.