Ja 22 — The Story about the Dog

English translation by Bhikkhu Sujato.

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Stories of Past Lives 22
The Book of the Ones
The Four-horned Antelope
Hounds: a past life story
The dogs raised in the royal family,
pedigreed, handsome and strong,
are not slaughtered, we are slaughtered—
this is not the mutts deserving death, this is the killing of the weak.