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leg. The moment she was caught she bleated loudly. The goat- 

 herds came up from every side, caught him, and crying 44 Here is 

 the thief who has been feeding so long on the royal goats," beat 

 him and bound him, and took him before the king. At that 

 moment the Bodhisat with his train of five hundred youths had just 

 come out of the city, and was going to bathe. When he saw Mit- 

 tavindaka he recognised him, and said to the men : "Friends, this 

 is our (my) pupil ; what are you seizing him for ?" 44 Master, he is 

 a goat-stealer ; he had got one goat by the leg, that is why we 

 have caught him." 44 Then give him to me to be my slave ; I 

 will keep him (he shall live in dependence on me)." They replied, 

 cc Very well, master," and let him go, and departed, Then the 

 Bodhisat asked him : 44 Mittavindaka, where have you been living 

 all this time ?" He told him all that he had done. The Bodhi- 

 sat said, 44 This is the misfortune that come3 to those who will not 

 do what their friends say," and he uttered this stanza i — 

 " He who refuses to follow 

 The advice of a well-meaning- friend, 

 Like Mittaka catching the goat by the leg 

 Will surely repent in the end." 

 And that time that professor and Mittavindaka passed away 

 according to their deeds. 



The teacher having related this religious history to explain 

 the words, 44 Thus, mendicants, this man's own acts were the 

 cause both of his being a little-gain and of his being a gainer of 

 the glory of religion," made the connection and summed up the 

 Jataka by saying: 44 At that time Mittavindaka was the elder 

 Losakatissa, and the far-famed professor was I myself." 



(Here ends Losaka- Jataka.) 



42.— EATOTA- JATAKA. 

 44 Pigeon" Birth-Story. 

 44 The Good Advice of Friends," fyc. 

 This the teacher told while residing in Jetavana on occasion 

 of a certain greedy mendicant. His greediness will be shown 

 in the Ninth Part, in the 44 Crow-birth." They told the teacher 

 about this mendicant, saying : 44 Sir, this mendicant is greedy." 

 The teacher asked him : 44 Is it true, mendicant, that you are 

 greedy?" 44 Yes, sir," he replied. The teacher said : "This is 

 not the first time, mendicant, you have been greedy ; by means of 

 greediness you came to your end, and on your account also the wise 

 lost their dwelling-place." He then related the story of the past. 

 In past time, when Brahmadatta was reigning in Benares, the 

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