Basket of Conduct 27

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1. The Conduct Leading to Buddhahood
2. The Chapter With Yudhañjaya
3. The Perfection of Truth (1st)
4. The Monkey King’s Conduct
5. “When I was a monkey
6. in a cleft on the riverbank,
7. harassed by a crocodile
8. I could not get across.
9. Where I used to land
10. when jumping from the near shore to the far,
11. there crouched my deadly foe,
12. the baleful gharial.
13. Reassuring me, he said ‘Come!’
14. ‘I am coming,’ I said to him.
15. Stepping on his head
16. I made it to the far bank.
17. I spoke no lie to him,
18. but acted according to my word.
19. There is no-one to equal my truthfulness:
20. this is my perfection of truth.”