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13. — THE DART OF LOVE.
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[1]When the Master had taught them this story, he proclaimed the Four Truths. And at the conclusion thereof that love-sick monk was converted. And the Master made the connexion, and summed up the Jātaka by saying, "The mountain-deer of that time was the love-sick brother, the roe was his former wife, and the tree fairy, who preached the sermon showing the evil of passion, was I myself."


END OF THE STORY OF THE DART OF LOVE.


1 The two previous lines should belong, I think, to the explanatory comment.

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