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worth a hundred thousand to shore, but the honest peddler, The honest trader returned to
pieces of silver. He gave us a who had already paid, calmly Seriva, where he lived a full life
thousand for it and took it away, told the ferryman to continue spent in charity and other good
so you are too late!” on. works, and passed away to fare
according to his deserts.
When the peddler heard this, an The frustrated trader could only
intense pain swept over him. “He stand there on the river-bank When the Buddha finished this
robbed me! He robbed me!” he and watch his rival escape with story, he identified himself as the
cried. “He got my golden bowl the bowl. The sight so infuriated honest trader, and Devadatta
worth a hundred thousand!” him that a fierce hate swelled as the greedy trader. This was
He became hysterical and lost up inside him. His heart grew the beginning of the implacable
all control. Throwing down his hot, and blood gushed from his grudge which Devadatta held
money and merchandise, he mouth. Finally, his heart cracked against the Bodhisatta through
tore off his shirt, grabbed the like the mud at the bottom of a innumerable lives.
beam of his scales for a club, pond dried up by the sun. So
and ran to the riverside to catch intense was the unreasoning (From Jataka Tales of the
the other trader. hatred which he developed Buddha, part I. Retold by
against the other trader because Ken and Visakha Kawasaki.
By the time he got to the river, the of the golden bowl, that he Copyright@1995.)
boat was already in midstream. perished then and there.
He shouted for the boat to return

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