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    JATAKA TALES - 18 children’s Bhuddist Jataka Tales: Children's Stories with great moral beauty and deep truths
    JATAKA TALES - 18 children’s Bhuddist Jataka Tales: Children's Stories with great moral beauty and deep truths
    JATAKA TALES - 18 children’s Bhuddist Jataka Tales: Children's Stories with great moral beauty and deep truths
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    JATAKA TALES - 18 children’s Bhuddist Jataka Tales: Children's Stories with great moral beauty and deep truths

    By Ellen C. Babbitt

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    Captivate yourself with the charm of these 18 children’s Jataka Tales. Let their quaint humour and gentle earnestness teach your children the wholesome lessons of life, among them the duty of kindness to animals.

    The Jataka Tales contain deep truths, and are calculated to impress lessons of great moral beauty to children – so needed in current times. Herein are the tale of the Merchant of Seri, who gave up all that he had in exchange for a golden dish, which embodies much the same idea as the New Testament’s parable of the priceless pearl. Also contained herein are the Tale of the Measures of Rice which illustrates the importance of a true estimate of values. The Tale of the Banyan Deer, which offered its life to save a roe and her young. This tale illustrates self-sacrifice of the noblest sort. Also the Tale of the Sandy Road is one of the finest in the collection to name but a few.

    The Jatakas, or birth-stories, form one of Buddhism’s sacred books. They relate the adventures of the Buddha. Carved railings around the relic shrines of Sanchi in Madhya Pradesh and Amaravati in Andhra Pradesh indicate that the birth-stories were widely known in the third century B.C.

    While some of the stories are based in Buddhist ideology, many are age-old fables, the flotsam and jetsam of folk-lore that have appeared under various guises throughout the centuries. At times they have been used merely as merry tales, and at other times they’re used as literature, as by Chaucer, who unwittingly puts a Jataka story into the mouth of his Pardoner when he tells the tale of “the Ryotoures three.”

    33% of the publisher’s profit from the sale of this book will be donated to charity.

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAbela Publishing
    Release dateApr 24, 2017
    ISBN9781907256202
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      JATAKA TALES - 18 children’s Bhuddist Jataka Tales - Ellen C. Babbitt

      BIRDS

      I

      THE MONKEY AND THE CROCODILE

      PART I

      A MONKEY lived in a great tree on a river bank.

      In the river there were many Crocodiles.

      A Crocodile watched the Monkeys for a long time, and one day she said to her son: My son, get one of those Monkeys for me. I want the heart of a Monkey to eat.

      How am I to catch a Monkey? asked the little Crocodile. I do not travel on land, and the Monkey does not go into the water.

      Put your wits to work, and you'll find a way, said the mother.

      And the little Crocodile thought and thought.

      At last he said to himself: I know what I'll do. I'll get that Monkey that lives in a big tree on the river bank. He wishes to go across the river to the island where the fruit is so ripe.

      So the Crocodile swam to the tree where the Monkey lived. But he was a stupid Crocodile.

      Oh, Monkey, he called, come with me over to the island where the fruit is so ripe.

      How can I go with you? asked the Monkey. I do not swim.

      No--but I do. I will take you over on my back, said the Crocodile.

      The Monkey was greedy, and wanted the ripe fruit, so he jumped down on the Crocodile's back.

      Off we go! said the Crocodile.

      This is a fine ride you are giving me! said the Monkey.

      Do you think so? Well, how do you like this? asked the Crocodile, diving.

      Oh, don't! cried the Monkey, as he went under the water. He was afraid to let go, and he did not know what to do under the water.

      and choked. Why did you take me under water, Crocodile? he asked.

      I am going to kill you by keeping you under water, answered the Crocodile. My mother wants Monkey-heart to eat, and I'm going to take yours to her.

      I wish you had told me you wanted my heart, said the Monkey, then I might have brought it with me.

      How queer! said the stupid Crocodile. Do you mean to say that you left your heart back there in the tree?

      That is what I mean, said the Monkey. If you want my heart, we must go back to the tree and get it. But we are so near the island where the ripe fruit is, please take me there first.

      No, Monkey, said the Crocodile, I'll take you straight back to your tree. Never mind the ripe fruit. Get your heart and bring it to me at once. Then we'll see about going to the island.

      Very well, said the Monkey.

      But no sooner had he jumped onto the bank of the river than--whisk! up he ran into the tree.

      From the topmost branches he called down to the Crocodile in the water below:

      My heart is way up here! If you want it, come for it, come for it!

      PART II

      THE Monkey soon moved away from that tree. He wanted to get away from the Crocodile, so that he might live in peace.

      But the Crocodile found him, far down the river, living in another

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