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The covetous merchant, going again to the house said, 

 Bring that dish, I will give you something for it. But the 

 woman, scolding him, said, You did value our golden dish 

 worth a lack at half amasaka. Another merchant, a just man, 

 who appears to be your master, has given us a thousand pieces 

 of gold for it and taken it away. When he heard this, per- 

 ceiving that he had lost the dish of solid gold, he thought, 

 Truly my loss is great ! and being unable to bear up, under his 

 violent grief, he lost all self-command, scattered his goods and 

 money about, threw off his apparel, and seizing his yoke as a 

 cudgel, he followed after Bodisat. Coming to the bank of the 

 river, and seeing Bodisat passing over, he called out, Good 

 boatman, bring back the boat ! But Bodisat would not allow 

 this to be done, Gazing after Bodisat, and overwhelmed with 

 grief, his heart became heated, and the blood flowed from his 

 mouth, as water from a broken dram ; and desirous of destroy- 

 ing Bodisat, he himself died on the spot. This was the first 

 time that Dewadatta desired the death of Bodisat. Upon the 

 conclusion of this discourse the priest, for whose benefit it was 

 spoken., became a Bahat. 



End of Seriwanija Jataka. 



The fourth, or Chulla^setti Jatahan, 

 VerS£.~-The wise and observing man will even by small 

 means raise himself to affluence, even as a large fire is kindled 

 by few materials* 



Legend. — This discourse was delivered when Biidha lived 

 at Jiwakambawaney near Rajagaha, on account of the priest 

 Chulla Pantika, the circumstances connected with whose birth 

 were as follows. The daughter of a nobleman of the Dananja 

 family contracted an intimacy with a male slave, and fearing 



