Seeking for freedom thus, is being bound!
Not by such deeds as these are the wise made free:
Salvation is the bond of fools!”[296]
Thenceforward men refrained from such life-destroying deeds, and living a life of righteousness filled the city of the gods.
The Teacher, having finished this discourse, made the connexion, and summed up the Jātaka: “I at that time was the Genius of the Tree.”
END OF THE STORY ON OFFERINGS GIVEN UNDER A VOW.
No. 20.
NAḶAPĀNA JĀTAKA.
The Monkeys and the Demon.
“He saw the marks of feet,” etc.—This the Teacher told about the Naḷa-canes, when he was living at the Ketaka wood, hard by the Lake of Naḷaka-pāna, after he had come to the village of that name on his tour through Kosala.