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  • The "Mahisa-jataka," No. 278, tells how an impudent monkey voids his excrement on a patient buffalo (the Bodhisatta) under

    Filipino Popular Tales Dean Spruill Fansler

  • With this story compare the "Palasa-jataka," No. 370, which tells how a

    Filipino Popular Tales Dean Spruill Fansler

  • In the "Ucchanga-jataka" (Fausböll, No. 67, of uncertain date, but possibly going back to the third century B.C.) we are told --

    Filipino Popular Tales Dean Spruill Fansler

  • In the "Kapi-jataka," No. 404, a bad monkey drops his excrement first on the head and then into the mouth of a priest, who later takes revenge on the monkey by having him and all his following of five hundred destroyed.

    Filipino Popular Tales Dean Spruill Fansler

  • Two very early forms of this tale are the "Vanarinda-jataka," No. 57, which tells how the crocodile lay on a rock to catch the monkey, and how the latter outwitted the crocodile; and the "Sumsumara-jataka," No. 208, in which a crocodile wanted the heart of a monkey, and the monkey pretended that it was hanging on a fig-tree.

    Filipino Popular Tales Dean Spruill Fansler

  • "Latukika-jataka," No. 357, which tells how a quail brought about the destruction of an elephant that had killed her young ones.

    Filipino Popular Tales Dean Spruill Fansler

  • The "Vanarinda-jataka," No. 57, contains what I believe is the original of the "house-answering owner" droll episode in our Pampangan variant.

    Filipino Popular Tales Dean Spruill Fansler

  • "Kacchapa-jataka," No. 273, which narrates how a monkey insulted a tortoise by thrusting his penis down the sleeping tortoise's throat, and how the monkey was punished.

    Filipino Popular Tales Dean Spruill Fansler

  • Buddhistic variant has been overlooked by them, -- the "Takkala-jataka,"

    Filipino Popular Tales Dean Spruill Fansler

  • Past life accounts (skyes-pa’i rabs, Skt. jataka) are accounts of the difficult ascetic practices that Buddha performed in his previous lives while engaging in the conduct of the bodhisattvas.

    The Twelve Scriptural Categories L.T. Doboom Tulku 2007

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