How, being of the land, have you from water caught a fish?
How did you do the feat, my lord? pray answer to my wish.

The jackal, explaining the means to her, spoke the next stanza:--

By strife it is their weakness comes, by strife their means decay:
By strife the otters lost their prize: Mayavi, eat the prey.

[336] There is another stanza uttered by the Perfect Wisdom of Buddha:--

Even so when strife arises among men,
They seek an arbiter: he's leader then:
Their wealth decays, and the king's coffers gain.

After the lesson, the Master declared the Truths and identified the, Birth:--"At that time the jackal was Upananda, the otters the two old men, the tree-spirit who witnessed the cause was myself."

Footnotes

^205:1 Cf. Folk-lore Journal, iv. 52, Tibetan Tales, p. 332.