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Stories of Past Lives 16 · The Book of the Ones

“About that deer—triply collapsed with many illusions, ^[1]

eight-hooved, a midnight drinker— ^[2]

he’s breathing on the ground through one nostril!

Excelling with these six tricks, he deserves a chance.” ^[3]

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[1] The deer attentively learns the ruses of deer.

I understand the first two lines as accusative of relation.

[2] Here aṭṭha chimes with aḍḍha. Perhaps the sense is that the dainty tread of the cloven hooves make little sound.

[3] Here kalā means “trick, deceit”.

Chahi kalāhi here chimes with sattahi kālāti in the previous verse. The “six tricks” are the three ways of playing dead, the eight hooves, sneaking a drink at midnight, and breathing through one nostril. How eight hooves is a ruse is unclear, but its central role suggests it was the kernel of the two verses.

Commentary takes bhāgineyyo in its usual sense of “nephew”, but I think it is from bhāgin by analogy with dakkhiṇeyyo, “one who deserves a share”.