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riputto (one of his two chief priests) and I Budha was then 

 the Prince Mahinsasa. 



End of the Bewa-damma Jatika. 



The thirty-eighth) or BaJca Jatahan. 



Verse.'— -Fraudful cunning does not in the end produce per- 

 manent advantage. The fraudulent person may be circumvented, 

 as the crane was by the crab. 



Legend.— When Budha resided at Jetawany he spake this 

 Jataka concerning a priest named Cheewara-waddaki. 



There was a priest who lived in the Bewaram monastery 

 who was skilful in cutting up cloth and sewing, and was there- 

 fore called Cheewara-waddaki : he procured some pieces of old 

 gotten cloth, and very skilfully made them into a robe, dyed 

 it, and put it by carefully. Another priest, who did not know 

 bow to make robes, had received a piece of new cloth, and taking 

 it to Cheewara-waddaki said, Be so obliging as to cut this up 

 for me and make it into a robe. Upon which he replied It 

 will take some time to cut this up and sew it, but I have a 

 yobe here which I have just made and kept by me; and so 

 saying he' took the new cloth and gave him the robe he had 

 Km&e out of decayed pieces. After the priest had worn the 

 robe a short time it became dirty, and he put it into hot water 

 to wash it, and then saw that it was decayed in many places : 

 being much displeased and grieved, he made it known to the 

 different priests who visited the place, and the manner in which 

 be had been cheated was published abroad. There was a coun- 

 try priest, who was much of the same disposition with Chee- 

 wara-waddaki, and he hearing that there was a priest at De= 

 waram as skilful as himself in the arts of deception thought 9 

 It will be a capital thing if I can cheat this city priest. He 

 accordingly procured a piece of cloth of very slight texture^ made 



