Basket of Conduct 3

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1. The Conduct Leading to Buddhahood
2. The Chapter With Akitti
3. The Perfection of Giving (3rd)
4. Kururāja’s Conduct
5. “Then again when I reigned
6. in Indapatta, the capital city,
7. as the king named Dhanañjaya
8. I was blessed with the ten skillful deeds.
9. From the realm of Kaliṅga
10. brahmins came to me
11. requesting the royal elephant
12. that was lucky and deemed auspicious.
13. ‘Our nation is suffering from drought,
14. food is scarce and famine abounds,
15. please give the noble elephant
16. of midnight hue named Añjana.’
17. ‘When supplicants come to me
18. it is unbefitting to refuse.
19. Let not my vow be broken,
20. I shall give the mighty elephant.’
21. Taking the elephant by the trunk,
22. and a bejeweled ceremonial vessel,
23. I sprinkled water on the hand,
24. and gave the elephant to the brahmins.
25. When I had given the elephant,
26. my ministers said,
27. ‘Why did you give the noble elephant
28. to the supplicants?
29. He was lucky and endowed with the auspicious,
30. supreme victor in battle.
31. Now you have given the elephant,
32. how shall you govern the realm?’
33. ‘I would give the entire realm
34. and my physical body as well.
35. Omniscience is precious to me,
36. which is why I gave away the elephant.’”