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The Four-horned Antelope

Перевод: Бхиккху Суджато

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Stories of Past Lives 21 · The Book of the Ones

The four-horned antelope knows that ^[1]

it’s you who tosses fruit from the beechwood tree. ^[2]

I’ll go to another beechwood,

I don’t like your fruit.

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[1] A wary antelope spots a hunter hiding in a tree and seeks elsewhere for fruit.

The kuruṅga is the four-horned antelope (Sanskrit kuraṅga; Tetracerus quadricornis). The Mṛgapakṣiśāstra says they are short and red, with branched horns and wide eyes. They often graze grass and are shrewd and patient.

[2] The sepaṇṇi is the beechwood or gamhar (Gmelina arborea), a Sanskrit name of which is śriparṇi, “blessed leaf”. It has edible fruit and grows to a height of 30 metres.