In the Jātaka story No. 141 (vol. i, p. 303), a chameleon induced an iguana-trapper to kill a number of iguanas by digging out their burrows because he found his friendship with one of them troublesome.
[2] The Monitor Lizard (Varanus dracaena). [↑]
No. 185
The Cobra and the Polan̆gā
At the time of a drought there was not even a little water for a Cobra to drink, it is said. Well then, when the Cobra went to a village, a little child at a house was playing with the water in a large bowl. The child’s mother was not at home.
The Cobra having gone there, while it is drinking the water the child throws water out of the coconut shell on the Cobra’s head, and strikes it with hand and foot. On account of it nothing angry is aroused in the Cobra; having drunk its belly full of water it goes away.
Thus, in that manner, when the Cobra was going drinking and drinking the water for two or three days, one day it met with a Polan̆gā.[1] The Polan̆gā asked, “Where, friend, do you drink water?”