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The Four-horned Antelope

Перевод: Бхиккху Суджато

kn / ja

Stories of Past Lives 23 · The Book of the Ones

Though lying on my side ^[1]

pierced by many arrows,

the king’s stallion beats a gelding— ^[2]

harness me now, charioteer. ^[3]

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[1] A wounded warhouse urges its rider to take one last stand.

[2] Bhoja is a common name or term for a king. The commentary says the bhojja was a stallion from Sindh (today a province of Pakistan).

Vaḷavā is normally “mare”, but here it is masculine ablative, glossed with the masculine khaluṅkasso (“wild colt”, see AN 8.14:9.1). It is said to be not from Sindh. Monier-Williams defines vaḍaba as “a male horse resembling a mare”, perhaps a gelding.

[3] Read yuñja maṁ yeva.