Karma Story of Buddhist Ethics

Author(s): Paul Carus
Publisher: Chicago Open Court Publishing Company

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crime, and suffer now for other sins. Oh, that I could beg the farmer's pardon whom, for the sake of niy master, I wronged without any cause! This torture, I believe, is a punishment for my rudeness.”
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While the officer was still applying the lash to the back of the slave, the farmer arrived at the inn and, to the great astonishment of all concerned, delivered the purse. The slave