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  • A birth-story about a brahmin whose wife feigned sickness to avoid work, cured of her deceit when her husband, on the Bodhisatta’s advice, threatened to force cow-dung medicine on her.

  • A birth-story in which the king of Bārāṇasī learns from an owl attacked by crows that campaigns begun at the wrong time end in disaster.

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  • A birth-story recounted within the Sudhābhojana Jātaka rather than told independently.

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