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JÄtaka Stories of Past Lives 74
EkakanipÄta The Book of the Ones
Varuį¹avagga The Warding Tree
4. RukkhadhammajÄtaka The Law of Trees: a past life story
āSÄdhÅ« sambahulÄ Ć±ÄtÄ«, It is well for the many relatives, While the verse speaks only of trees, the story says that the deities who live in trees are advised to dwell only in those clustered together in the forest. Some deities, however, greedy for human offerings, set up home in trees worshiped as shrines by villages.
api rukkhÄ araƱƱajÄ; the trees born in the forest.
VÄto vahati ekaį¹į¹haį¹, The wind sweeps off one standing alone,
brahantampi vanappatināti. even the enormous lord of the forest.
RukkhadhammajÄtakaį¹ catutthaį¹.