the ass

Role: ass · First appears: Chapter XXXII

In Chapter XXXII, the ass joined Bodisat and asked, “O uncle, your flesh and your blood and your hide thrive, and yet I have never seen you change your abode.” The two broke through the king’s bean-field enclosure, and the ass stayed quiet until it had eaten its fill. The king’s people then cut off the ass’s ears, fastened a pestle to its neck, and released it.

Relationship record

Life events

• The king’s people cut off the ass’s ears, fastened a pestle to its neck, and released it.(Chapter XXXII · 📍 the king’s bean-field)
  • “they cut off its ears, fastened a pestle to its neck, and then set it free.”

Chapter XXXII

• with Bodisat (They address one another as uncle and nephew.) “There an ass joined him. It said one day, ‘O uncle, your flesh and your blood and your hide thrive, and yet I have never seen you change your abode.’”
• friends with Bodisat (They go together to the bean-field and address one another as uncle and nephew.) “After they two had broken through the enclosure of the bean-field and reached the interior, the ass uttered no sound until it had eaten its fill.”

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