Kūṭavāṇija Jātaka2
JātakaUn jātaka où un villageois, trompé par l’affirmation que des souris avaient mangé ses socs de charrue déposés, se venge en prétendant qu’un faucon a emporté le fils de son ami, jusqu’à ce que le juge — le bodhisatta — règle leur différend.
A villager once deposited five hundred ploughshares with a friend in the town, but when he came to claim them, he was told that they had been eaten by mice, and was shown the dung the mice had left behind. Some time later the villager took his friend’s son to bathe, hid him in a house, and reported to the townsman that the boy had been carried off by a hawk. When he was taken before the judge, who was the Bodhisatta, he protested that in a place where mice ate ploughshares a hawk could easily carry off a boy. The Bodhisatta settled their dispute (J.ii.181 ff).
The introductory story is similar to that of No.1 above.
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