4. Macchajātaka

The Fish: a past life story

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Jātaka

Stories of Past Lives 34

0.2

Ekakanipāta

The Book of the Ones

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Kulāvakavagga

Nests

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4. Macchajātaka

The Fish: a past life story

1.1

“Na maṁ sītaṁ na maṁ uṇhaṁ,

It’s not the cold or heat for me,

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na maṁ jālasmi bādhanaṁ;

nor the being caught in the net;

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Yañca maṁ maññate macchī,

it’s that my lady, the fish, thinks of me,

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aññaṁ so ratiyā gato”ti.

“He went for joy to another.”

2.1

Macchajātakaṁ catutthaṁ.