In this way, when the Lion had said, “Jackal-artificer,” for many days, he said, “Don’t say ‘Jackal-artificer.’ ”
“What name am I to say?” the Lion asked.
“Say to me, ‘Small Lion’; don’t say, ‘Jackal-artificer,’ ” he said.
After the Lion had been saying, “Small Lion,” for a few days, “Say to me, ‘Great Lion’; don’t say, ‘Small Lion,’ ” he said to the Lion.
Then the Lion says, “For me to say, ‘Great Lion,’ you must make the Lion’s roar,” the Lion said.
Then the Jackal having gone near a tusk elephant, after he had cried out, as the Lion’s roar, “Hokkiyē, Hokkiyē” (the beginning of the customary yelping cry of the Jackal), the tusk-elephant kicked the Jackal.
Thereupon the Jackal died.
Tom-tom Beater. North-western Province.
In the Jātaka stories 143 (vol. i, p. 306) and 335 (vol. iii, p. 75), a Jackal who acted as a Lion’s servant induced his master to let him go out in the latter’s place, in order to kill animals. He howled and sprang at an elephant, but was crushed to death by it.