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  • A Jātaka about a fisherman whose scheme to keep neighbours from claiming a share of an imagined catch backfires disastrously — he is blinded wrestling with a mere snag, robbed of his clothes, and his wife is fined and beaten for a quarrel he had instructed her to start — witnessed by a tree-spirit, told about Devadatta as an example of every scheme of his ending in ruin.

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