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The Tham Vessantara-jAtaka - Khamkoo

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clothes, do not wear clothes made of Kusa grass. It is joyless to live in the forest. Oh do<br />

not go beautiful lady!<br />

<strong>The</strong>n the most beautiful princess MaddI replies, “To be without Vessentara I<br />

would not desire for any happiness.” <strong>The</strong> great king, prosperous to the kingdom of the<br />

Sivi’s told her, “Come MaddI, listen to what horrible things there are in the forest.<br />

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BahUkItA pataNgA ca : <strong>The</strong>re are many kinds of insects such as bugs, bees, and<br />

mosquitoes that would bite you and that would be very hard for you to live in the forest.<br />

Note your residence situated close to the river bank where there are snakes named goatswallower,<br />

though they are poison-less but so frightful. If anyone or animal that may<br />

come close to them, they interweave their coils overpower and swallow it. AGGepisattA :<br />

<strong>The</strong>re are other dangerous animal called black-furred bears which may cause any danger<br />

to anyone who happened to see them and it is said that one could not get away even by<br />

climbing a tree. MahimsA : On the other hand, there are buffaloes which have great<br />

sharpen horns wandering on the river bank of Sotumbara who might frighten you.<br />

DisvA miggAnaM : When you encounter with the groups of wild cattle<br />

wandering in the forest, like a cow hankering after its calf, what is to be done MaddI?<br />

Seeing the frightful monkeys gathered together in the tree tops, you will be frightened,<br />

MaddI, because it will be a new sight for you. YA tvaM sivAya sutvAna : You are often<br />

frightened even in your own home when you hear a jackal howl. What are you going to<br />

do when you go to the Vamka Mountain? Why would you go to such a place? Even at<br />

midday when all the birds rest, the great forest is fully of noise”.<br />

Tamabhavi rAjaputtI maddi sabbamg sobhanA : <strong>The</strong>n the beauteous princess<br />

MaddI spoke up and replied to the king thus: “I can bear all the terrors of the jungle you<br />

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described. I am resolved to go. KAsam kusaM paTakilaM : I will put my way through all<br />

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