The Tham Vessantara-jAtaka - Khamkoo

me, Ceta, I come as their messenger. I am going to take Vessantara back. Tell me, if you
know where he is.”
Then the Ceta was pleased to hear that he had indeed come to take Vessantara
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back home. He tied up his dogs and called the Brahmin to climb down. He made him sit
among the branches and he spoke this stanza, Piyassa me piyo dUto paGGapattaM
dadAmi te imaGca madhuno tumbaM miggasatthiGca brAhmaBa taGca te dasa
makkhissaM yattha sammati kAmadoti : “I love the messenger of the Prince and I will
give you ample food, leg of deer and pot of honey too. And I will tell you the place
where to find the generous giver of the desires lives peacefully.”
JUjaka pabbam niThitam : This is the end of the section on JUjaka, which contains
seventy-nine stanzas according to the Buddha’s teaching.
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Section Seventeen
CuLLabon : The section on the small forest
Namotassatthu : May homage be to the Buddha.
EvaGcetaputto brAhmaBaM bhojetvA pAtheyyassatthAya tassa madhono
tambaGceva pakkami gasatthiGca datvA brAhmaBamagge thapetvA dakkhiBa hatthaM
ukkhipitvA mahAsattassa vasanto kAsaM Acikkhanto Aha : Listen devotees, about the
young hunter who was assigned to look after the entrance to the forest, which the old
Brahmin had entered. When he had fed the old Brahmin and provided him a gourd of
honey and a roast thigh of deer and various things for his journey, Ceta showed him the
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