經律異相 47.76

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A herd of cattle was gentle and well-trained in disposition. Wherever they went, they chose tender and delicious grass to eat and selected pure and cool water to drink. At that time, there was a donkey who thought: 'I too will imitate their eating and drinking.' It then entered the herd of cattle, scraped the ground with its front hooves, and harassed those cattle, imitating their bellowing but unable to change its voice, crying out in its own sound: 'I too am an ox!' The cattle gored it to death with their horns and left it behind (from the *Ekottarika-āgama*, fascicle 20).