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# Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v2.c35.758

Dictionary of Pāli Proper Names v2.c35.758

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### [v2.c35.758](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c35.758)

Vātamiga Jātaka (No. 14).—The Bodhisatta was once born as Brahmadatta, king of Benares. He had a gardener named Sañjaya. A vātamiga used to visit the royal park, and the king asked Sañjaya to catch it. Sañjaya put honey on the grass where the animal fed, and, in due course, the animal came to eat out of his hand. He was thus able to entice it right into the palace, where he shut the door on it. The king marvelled that a vātamiga, who was so shy that if it once saw a man it would not visit the same place for a week after, should allow itself to be caught by greed.

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