Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v2.c34.32

v2.c34.32

**Lakkhaṇa Jātaka** (No. 11).—The Bodhisatta was once a deer and had two sons, **Lakkhaṇa** and **Kāḷa**. When the time came for gathering the crops, he told his sons to seek refuge in the mountain tracts with their herds. They agreed, but Kāḷa, being ignorant, kept his deer on the tramp early and late, and men, coming upon them, destroyed most of them. Lakkhaṇa, however, moved his deer only in the dead of night and reached the forest without losing any of his herd. The same thing happened on their return four months later, and the Bodhisatta praised Lakkhaṇa’s intelligence.