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  • A Jātaka in which a king orders every dog but his own destroyed after his chariot straps are gnawed, not realizing his own dogs were the culprits, until the leader of a pack of cemetery dogs proves this by making the royal dogs vomit up the evidence, then teaches the king a code of righteous conduct that benefited dogs for ten thousand years afterward.

Ja 22
  • A second, unrelated entry sharing this same title, which the source identifies merely as an alternate reference to a different Jātaka concerning a cock, without further content of its own.

Ja 22

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