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# Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v2.c36.2607

Dictionary of Pāli Proper Names v2.c36.2607

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### [v2.c36.2607](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c36.2607)

1. Sigāla Jātaka (No. 113).—The people of Benares once held a sacrifice to the Yakkhas, placing meat and liquor in their courtyards. A jackal, who entered the city through a sewer, regaled himself with food and drink and then went to sleep in some bushes in the city. He did not awake till morning, and then, looking for a way of escape, met a brahmin. Promising to show him a spot where lay hidden two hundred pieces of gold, he persuaded the brahmin to carry him out of the city in his waist-cloth. Arrived at the cemetery, he asked the brahmin to spread his robe and dig under a tree. While the brahmin dug, the jackal fouled the robe and ran away. The Bodhisatta, then a tree-sprite, advised the brahmin to wash his robe and cease being a fool.

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