The crow (Chapter 048)

Role: crow · First appears: Chapter XLVIII

Life events

The crow broke the Rishi’s kitchen pots and pitchers, and he resolved never to speak to her again.(Chapter XLVIII · 📍 Rājagṛiha)
- With: The Rishi (Chapter 048)
- “Seeing nothing there, she broke the pots and pitchers, and then flew away. When the Rishi came into his kitchen, and found the pots and pitchers broken, he knew that it was none but the bad crow who had done that, and he said in a verse: “To her who, without being told, has with shameless malice broken the things in the kitchen, shall in future, whether for praise or for blame, not even the smallest word be spoken.”

with The jackal (Chapter 048) (They exchange several verses and then feed together.) “The jackal looked up and said, likewise in verse: ‘O most excellent of birds, wanderer through the air, lighter-up of all places, now like unto a gem dwelling upon the summit of a splendid tree.’ The crow continued, ‘As I have descended in order to look upon one so highly blest, and as I pay honour to thee as the king of the beasts, deign to be gracious in behalf of the asker.’ The jackal said, ‘O crow, whose neck is like unto the neck of the peacock; O most excellent of pleasure-bringers, fair to see, descend in order to feed at will.’ The crow flew down, and, in the company of the jackal, began to devour the dead body.”

Extracted from the original text of Tibetan Tales, Derived from Indian Sources. Made with Rho MD.