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  • A Jātaka in which the Bodhisatta, as an ascetic, reconciles a terrified nāga and a pursuing garuḷa by teaching them loving-kindness, told in reference to two quarrelsome soldiers later reconciled by the Buddha.

  • A Jātaka in which the Bodhisatta’s brahmin family, having long contemplated the inevitability of death, show no grief when a son dies of snakebite, their equanimity so impressing Sakka that he rewards them with treasure.

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