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Translation 554 Vessantara-Jåtaka
[Fausbøll, Jåtaka, vol. VI, p. 554]
But Jūjaka quickly got up, and followed them, cord and stick in hand, spitting like the fire
at the world's end; "Very clever you are indeed," said he, "at running away"; and he tied
their hands and brought them back.
Explaining this, the Master said:
"And so the brahmin took his cord, and so his staff he took,
And brought them back with beating, while the king was forced to look."
As they were led away, Kaṇhājinā turned back, and lamented to her father. Explaining
this, the Master said:
"Then spake Kaṇhājinā and said: "My father, prithee see—
As though I were a home-born slave this brahmin thrashes me!
Brahmins are men of upright life: no brahmin he can be.
A goblin sure in brahmin-shape, that leads us off to eat.
And can you stay and see us led to be a goblin's meat?"
As his young daughter lamented, trembling as she went, dire grief arose in the Great
Being: his heart grew hot within him; his nose was not large enough, so from his mouth
he sent forth hot pantings; tears like drops of blood fell from his eyes. Then he thought:
"All this pain comes from affection, and no other cause; I must quiet this affection, and
be calm." Thus by power of his knowledge he did away with that keen pang of sorrow,
and sat still as usual.
Ere they had yet reached the entering in of the mountains, the girl went on lamenting:
"Sore are these little feet of mine, hard in the way we go,
The brahmin drives us on and on, the sun is sinking low.