Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v2.c36.2480
Dictionary of Pāli Proper Names v2.c36.2480
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v2.c36.2480
Sāliya Jātaka (No. 367).—Once a village doctor saw a snake lying in the fork of a tree and asked the Bodhisatta, who was then a village boy, to get it for him, telling him that it was a hedgehog. The boy climbed the tree and seized the animal by its neck, but, on discovering that it was a snake, threw it away. The snake fell on the doctor and bit him so severely that he died.