Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v2.c31.772

v2.c31.772

**Mayhaka Jātaka** (No. 390).—The Bodhisatta was once born in a very wealthy family, and he built an alms-hall and gave away generously. He married, and, on the birth of a son, he entrusted wife and child to his younger brother and became an ascetic. When the boy began to grow up, the brother drowned him in the river lest he should claim half the estate. The Bodhisatta saw this with his divine eye and called on his brother, to whom he pointed out the folly of covetousness—" You are like the bird, Mayhaka, who sits on the pipal-tree and keeps on crying 'Mine, mine,' while the other birds eat the fruit."