Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v2.c27.654
Dictionary of Pāli Proper Names v2.c27.654
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v2.c27.654
Paduma Jātaka (No. 261).—The Bodhisatta was once the son of a rich merchant in Benares. In the town was a tank tended by a leper who had lost his nose. One feast-day the Bodhisatta with his two brothers went to the tank to fetch some lotuses. The brothers tried to flatter the leper, thereby making him angry, but the Bodhisatta, being honest, was given a whole bunch of lotuses.