“How can a captive behave with courage?”
“I will set you free from your bonds.”
So soon as the young monkey was set free, he set the village on fire. When it began to burn, and clamour and uproar arose, the inhabitants heard it and said—
“Honoured sirs, while we and the monkeys are at a distance, a great calamity has occurred. As the village is burning, we will put out the fire and then come back.”
So they hastened to put out the fire; but the monkeys came down from the Tinduka tree and ran away. [[350]]
[1] Kah-gyur, ii. ff. 115–116. This story is given in Spence Hardy’s “Manual of Buddhism” (London, 1853, p. 113), under the title of “The Tinduka Játaka.”—S. [↑]
[2] Diospyros embryopteris.—S. [↑]