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  • A Jātaka about a cow’s calf and a lioness’s cub who grow up as inseparable playmates until a scheming jackal, hoping for food, befriends them and turns them against each other, leading to both animals’ deaths, told as a warning to the group of six troublesome monks against the habit of back-biting.

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