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  • A birth-story of a jackal who tricked a brahmin into carrying it out of Bārāṇasī with a false promise of buried gold, then fouled his robe and fled, told in reference to Devadatta.

  • A birth-story in which the Bodhisatta, as king of the jackals, outwitted a man who feigned death in a charnel field to catch and kill a jackal, told in reference to Devadatta.

  • A birth-story of a jackal who became trapped inside a dried elephant carcass it had been feeding on, escaping only in a storm and resolving to renounce greed, told to five hundred monks troubled by lustful thoughts.

  • A birth-story of the Bodhisatta as a lion whose brothers died trying to punish a jackal that had insulted their sister, told to a barber whose son died of unrequited love for a Licchavi girl.

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