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  • 一則本生故事,講述一隻鵪鶉的巢穴被一頭惡劣的大象無視哀求而踩毀,她聯合烏鴉、蒼蠅與青蛙設局,使大象因失明跌落懸崖而死,講述背景與提婆達多有關,也曾在釋迦族與拘利族爭水事件中被引用,說明弱小者亦能致強者於死地。

  • 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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