The Tham Vessantara-jAtaka - Khamkoo

When the Great Being had given the gift, he was pleased, thinking that he had
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made a good gift. He stood there watching his children. JUjaka went into the jungle and
biting off a creeper, he tied the boy’s right hand with it and to the girl’s left hand and
drove them away. He beat them with the end of the creeper. TamatthaM pakAsento
satthA Aha : In explaining this to the monks, the Teacher spoke: Tato so brAhmaBo luddo
lataM dantehi sindatiya latAtya yatthe bandhitvA latAya anumajjatha : “Then that cruel
Brahmin bit off a creeper. He tied JAli’s right hand with that creeper and KaBhA to the
left, and he hit the children with it.” Tato so : Then, with a walking stick and a rope of
creeper in hand, the old Brahmin drove them by beating them in front of their father’s
sight.” TesaM : Where they were beaten, the skin was cut and the blood ran, and where
they were beaten, they pushed each other back to back. Athettha udakantsmim : But
the Brahmin stepped on an uneven ground and fell. TesaM kummArAnaM : So, the
children slipped off the light tie with their soft hands and ran back to the Great Being
crying.
TamatthaM pakAsento satthA Aha : Explaining this to the monks, the teacher
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spoke: Tato kummArA pakkAmum brAhmaBassa pamUGciya assu puBBehi nettehi pitaraM
so udikkhati : “Then the children were free from the Brahmin and they ran off. The boy
stared at his father’s face with eyes full of tears. Vedhavassa jAlInI : Shaking like a leaf
of a fig tree in the wind, the boy embraced his father’s feet and having made his
respects, he spoke these words: AmmA ca tAta nikkhantA tvam ca no tAta dassasi yAva
ammampi passemu athano tAta dassasi : “Father, mother is out and you are giving us
away. Please wait until our mother comes back, and then give us away.” “Father, before
our mother going into the jungle in search of fruits and wild roots, she left many
cautious words with us; that is not to go into the thick jungle, and to stay near to you
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