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Ch. XI
Ch. III
Ch. XII - The simile of most obnoxiously polluted water which can nevertheless be purified with efforts.
Similarly, the illustrative stories cover eight chapters in all and as follows: Cb. II The story of a trader who in prison shared food with the murderer of his own son.
Ch. IV
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Ch. IX
Ch. VII -
Five Anga-texts story-collection
The simile of sea-coast trees of which most bloom and some wither when the Island-breeze blows, some bloom and most wither when the sea-breeze blows, all wither when neither breeze blows, all bloom when both breezes blow.
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The story of two friends each of whom had one peahen-egg and of whom one spoiled his egg throgh constant checking while the other did not.
- The story of two tortoises of whom one could manage to protect its body against jackals by remaining well hidden within its shell while the other could not because of its anxious movement of limbs.
The story of four daughters-in-law, of whom one threw away, the second ate up, the third preserved, the fourth sowed in the field the five paddy-grains offered by the father-in-law.
The story of two shipwrecked trader brothers stranded in an island, and fallen in the clutches of the island-ogress, of whom one could make good his escape because he paid no heed to the wailings of the ogress the other could not because he succumbed to those wailings.
Ch. XV The story of a trader's co-travellers, of whom some followed the caravan-chief's instructions and avoided the trees whose leaves, fruits, shadow etc. were to prove harmful eventually: the others did not.
Ch.XVII - The story of horses inhabiting a far-off island, some of whom were trapped because they succumbed to the temptations offered by the trappers while the others were not trapped bedause they resisted those temptations.
Ch.XVIII - The story of a trader and his five sons who managed to survive an ordeal by living upon the dead body of the trader's daughter killed by a thief-kidnapper.
[As can easily be Imagined, in most cases these similes and illustrative storles are made use of for contrasting the behaviour of an ideal monk with that of one falling short of the ideal.] The case is somewhat different
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