Reading Jataka Tales Part A and B

The Quarrel of the Quails 

  • there were many quails who lived together in a forest 
  • a man would come often and grab and bunch by a net to take home and sell to make money
  • one day the leader of the quails came up with a plan
  • all the quails who are caught in the net should all fly up and away with much force
  • the plan worked a couple times
  • one day the quails got into a quarrel 
  • they were no longer working together because they were divided onto two sides
  • the man came back to catch them in a net
  • because they were in a fight and not working together, they got taken away from their home

  • carpenters lived on a river bank near a forest
  • they noticed a wounded elephant
  • they tended to the elephant, and he was so grateful that he helped the carpenters with their work
  • he would bring them tree trunks, fetch their tools. move logs into the river etc
  • as the elephant grew older, he started bringing his son with him to show him the ways of the work
  • one day the king spotted the beautiful white elephant
  • the king paid the carpenters a lot of money to keep the white elephant for his own

White Elephant 

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