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  • 一则本生故事,讲述一只鹌鹑的巢穴被一头恶劣的大象无视哀求而踩毁,她联合乌鸦、苍蝇与青蛙设局,使大象因失明跌落悬崖而死,讲述背景与提婆达多有关,也曾在释迦族与拘利族争水事件中被引用,说明弱小者亦能致强者于死地。

  • A birth-story about a quail whose nest was trampled by a rogue elephant despite her plea for mercy, and who, enlisting a crow, a fly and a frog, engineered the elephant’s death by leading it blindly over a precipice, told in reference to Devadatta and cited during the Sākyan-Koliyan dispute to show even a weak creature can destroy the mighty.

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