Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v2.c31.10

v2.c31.10

**Makasa Jātaka** (No. 44).—Once, in a border village in Kāsi, there lived a number of carpenters. One day, one of them, a bald, grey-haired man, was planing some wood when a mosquito settled on his head and stung him. He asked his son who was sitting by to drive it away. The boy raised an axe, and meaning to drive away the mosquito, cleft his father's head in two, killing him. The Bodhisatta, a trader, saw this incident. "Better an enemy with sense than such a friend," said he.