The Tham Vessantara-jAtaka - Khamkoo

eggar will come now,” looking at the path by which he would come, like a drunkard
eager for a drink, while his children were playing at his feet. So maggaM olokento :
Watching the road, the Great Being saw the Brahmin coming and almost visibly taking
up the yoke of liberality, which had been laid aside for seven months, he cried in joy:
“Brahmin, come then!” and with great happiness, he addressed Prince JAli in this stanza:
UThehi JAli patiTha porABaM viya dissati brAhmaBaM viya passAmi nandiyo mAbhi
kIrareti: “JAli, arise and stand up! I see a sight from the past. I see a Brahmin coming
back again and happiness fills with me.”
TaM sutvA : Hearing this, JAli replied: AhaM pi Tata passAmi yo so brAmava
dissati atthiko viya AyAti atithI no bhavissatIti : “I too, see a man who looks like a
Brahmin, father. He comes like a beggar and he will be our guest.”
VatvA ca panna : With these words, JAli paid him respect and rising from his
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seat, he went to welcome the Brahmin and offered to take his bags. So brAhmaBo :
When the Brahmin saw him he thought: “This must be Prince JAli, the son of
Vessantara. I will speak harshly to him right away.” So, he clapped his fingers at
saying: Apehi apehi : Go away, go away! KummAro : Thinking that the Brahmin was
terribly rough and wondering what the matter was, the boy looked at his body and
noticed eighteen human deformities. BrAhmaBo : But the Brahmin came up to the Great
Being and greeted him politely thus: Kacci nu bhoto kusalaM, kacci bhoto anAmayaM,
kacci uGchena yApetha, kacci mUlaphalA bahU : “I hope you are well, sir; I hope you are
healthy sir; I hope you are able to live by collecting food and there are roots and fruit in
plenty to eat. Kacci DaMsA makasA ca : I hope there are few gadflies and mosquitoes
and I hope creepy crawlies do not bite your feet and swallow you. VALamigA : I hope you
encounter no harm in this forest thronged with wild beasts.”
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