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Translation 488 Vessantara-Jåtaka
[Fausbøll, Jåtaka, vol. VI, p. 488]
"With hairy armpits, hairy heads, stained teeth, and dust on poll,
O brahmins, stretching forth your hands, what is it that you crave?"
To this the brahmins replied:
"We crave a precious thing, O prince that dost thy people save:
That choice and saving 1 elephant with tusks like any pole."
When the Great Being heard this, he thought, "I am willing to give anything that is my
own, from my head onwards, and what they ask is something without me; I will fulfil
their wish"; and from the elephant's back, he replied:
"I give, and never shrink from it, that which the brahmins want,
This noble beast, for riding fit, fierce tuskèd elephant";
and thus consenting:
"The king, the saviour of his folk, dismounted from its back,
And glad in sacrificing, gave the brahmins what they lack."
The ornaments on the elephant's four feet were worth four hundred thousand, those on his
two sides were worth two hundred thousand, the blanket under his belly a hundred
thousand, on his back were nets of pearls, of gold, and of jewels, three nets worth three
hundred thousand, in the two ears two hundred thousand, on his back a rug worth a
hundred thousand, the ornament on the frontal globes worth a hundred thousand, three
wrappings 2 three hundred thousand, the small ear-ornaments two hundred thousand, those
on the two tusks two hundred thousand, the ornament for luck on his trunk a hundred
thousand, that on his tail a hundred thousand, not to mention the priceless ornaments on
his body two and twenty hundred thousand, a ladder to mount, by one hundred thousand,
the food-vessel a hundred thousand,
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urūḷhavo?
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vaṭṁsakā?