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serpent like the wind, 39, 148, 384 (e) PLANTS (AND TREES) IN P. AND sq.; mosquito employed to carry a SIMILES. mountain, a millipede to gallop as Life like the plants that spring fast as the Ho runs, 39, 389; using up and perish, 9, 19; the minds of a carriage and horses to convey a men compared with the movements mouse, trying to delight a quail with of a giant bambú, 35, 155-8: a the music of bells and drums, 40, jasmine bush is not disgraced by the 26; why foxes and leopards are fallen-off flowers (Buddha's religion killed, 40, 29. See also Animals (k). not by backsliders), 36, 73; water (d) THE KING IN P. AND SIMILES. fallen on a lotus flows away, 8, 289,
Parable of the king who rewards 374, 379; 36, 70; the beings of his warriors, bestowing at last his this world compared to the different crown jewel on the most deserving lotuses in a pond, 13, 88; the lotus
just as Buddha rewards those flower produced in mud and water, who struggle for him, keeping the but does not resemble the mud or crown jewel (omniscience for the water, 35, 117; the world a lotuslast, 21, xxx, 274-80; the king, his pool, the people lotuses, 45, 335-8, treasurer, and his confidential ad- 355 ; as the soft fibres are extracted viser-to illustrate mindfulness, 35, from the Muñga grass, so is the 59 sq.; the whole army with the devotee's self extracted from the king as its chief-meditation the body, 8, 249; sandal wood is not summit of all good qualities, 35, disgraced by a portion of it being 60 sq.; the king and his servant, 35, rotten (Buddha's religion not by 76, 93; 36, 53 sq.; the king's trea- backsliders), 36, 74; a good word surer, 35, 94 ; the king who tells his like a good tree whose root is firm sons they might abandon parts of and whose branches are in the sky: the empire, in order to test them, a bad word like a felled tree, 6,241; 35, 203; the criminal sent for by worldly life represented as a great the king to be released is yet in fear tree, which is eternal, and the seed of the king-so beings in hell are of which is the Brahman, 8, 313, afraid of death, 35, 212; the low 370 sq.; the Creator compared to man who were to gain a kingdom an orchard-owner, 24, 134-6; worwould soon be deprived of it (un- shippers of Buddha compared with worthy members of the Order trees, 35, 151; a tree may be in return to the lower state), 36, 69 full fruit, yet the fruits cannot be sq., 262 sq. ; a low man becoming enjoyed until they have fallen king cannot bear the dignity (lay- (Buddha is omniscient, yet reflects), man becoming an Arbat dies), 36, 35, 161 sq.; the trunk of a mighty 97 sq.; a king raises a tax and tree is not shaken, though the thereout bestows a gift (comp. branches may wave (the body, but Vessantara's gift causing sorrow), not the mind of an Arahat suffers), 36, 117 sq.; the bliss of sovranty 36, 77; a fruit from a high tree and the previous sufferings in war fetched by means of Iddhi (Arhat(comp. the bliss of Nirvana and the ship attained at once), 36, 93 sq. ; previous pain incurred by the quest of the large calabash, the salve, and of Nirvana), 36, 183 sq.; he who, the large Ailantus tree, showing being worthy, takes the vows, com- that nothing is really useless, 39, pared to a king, 36, 265 sq. ; a 128, 172-5; the Vanishing Root prince who wants to escape is which makes men invisible (the helped by his servant threatening magic power of love), 35, 281. him with a switch, 40, 321 ; the (f) OTHER P. AND SIMILES ARking who lost his kingdom by eating RANGED ALPHABETICALLY ACCORDa mango fruit : worldly pleasures ING TO CATCHWORDS. and divine life, 45, 28 sq.; the The acrobat first clears the ground king's son in the golden dungeon, before he shows his tricks-so is 49 (ii), 63 sq.
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