“There’s nothing worse than greed, they say,
Whether at home, or with one’s friends.
Through taste the deer, the wild one of the woods,
Fell under Sanjaya’s control.”
And when in other words he had shown the danger of greed, he let the antelope go back to the forest.
When the Master had finished this discourse in illustration of what he had said (“Not now only O mendicants! has this monk, caught by the lust of taste, fallen into her power; formerly also he did the same”), he made the connexion, and summed up the Jātaka as follows: “He who was then Sanjaya was this slave-girl, the antelope was the monk, but the king of Benares was I myself.”
END OF THE STORY OF THE SWIFT ANTELOPE.