ABSTRACT
IN long past times the Bodisat, his accumulations. 2 as yet incomplete, was born again among birds as a woodpecker, dwelhng in a villageless sohtude in a hill district, rich in mountain streams, fruits, and flowers. In the same dis- trict there hved a king of the beasts, a hon, which was in the habit of kilhng and devouring gazelles at its pleasure. One day it had been eating meat; a bone stuck fast between its teeth, and the hon, which had never known fear or anxiety, now ' that toothache was plaguing its body, was quite prostrated and could eat nothing.
