the parrot Māṭhara (Chapter 8)

Family: Videha · Role: parrot · First appears: Chapter VIII

Life events

Charaka escaped the king of Panchāla’s attempt to burn it by setting the palace ablaze and diving underwater.(Chapter VIII · 📍 the royal palace)
- With: the king of Panchāla (Chapter 8) Charaka
- “When its tail had been wrapped in cotton and drenched with mustard-oil, and when all this had been set on fire, and the bird was let go to fly up into the air, it set the whole of the royal palace in a blaze, and then dived under water.”
Māṭhara exposed the ministers’ conspiracy, and Janaka banished them from the country.(Chapter VIII · 📍 the park)
- With: Janaka the six ministers (Chapter 8) Mahaushadha
- “But the parrot Māṭhara reported all it had heard to Mahaushadha, and he reported it to the king, who banished those ministers from the country.”

mentor: Mahaushadha (Omitted: this is a single assignment, not an established teaching relationship.) “Mahaushadha saw them going thither, and reflected that, as they had gone somewhere as if by common consent, they probably had in hand something never seen before. Having suspected this, he sent the parrot Māṭhara after them, in order that it might find out what they were about, what they said and did.”

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