Ekakanipāta

The Book of the Ones

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Jātaka

Stories of Past Lives 31

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Ekakanipāta

The Book of the Ones

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Kulāvakavagga

Nests

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1. Kulāvakajātaka

Nests: a past life story

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“Kulāvakā mātali simbalismiṁ,

Mātali, don’t ram the bird nests

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Īsāmukhena parivajjayassu;

in the red silk-cotton woods with your draft-pole.

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Kāmaṁ cajāma asuresu pāṇaṁ,

I’d rather give up our lives to the titans

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Māme dijā vikkulāvā ahesun”ti.

than deprive these birds of their nests.

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Kulāvakajātakaṁ paṭhamaṁ.