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  • 前生において誤って葉を折った比丘であったため、悔悟して蛇として生まれ変わった龍王で、仏の時代に出会うことを願って娘が歌った謎歌に、ついに若きバラモン、ウッタラが答えた。

  • A Nāga king who, having been a monk who inadvertently broke a leaf in a past life, was reborn in remorse as a serpent, and whose daughter’s riddle-song, sung in hope of finding a Buddha’s era, was finally answered by the young brahmin Uttara.

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