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  • A Jātaka in which the Bodhisatta, as leader of eighty thousand monkeys, uses his own body as a bridge to save his troop from a king’s archers, while the monkey who was Devadatta in a former life is left to perish.

  • A Jātaka in which the Bodhisatta, as a monkey, rescues a starving man from a pit only to be struck with a stone by his ungrateful rescued man, later identified as Devadatta.

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