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20. — NAḶAPĀNA JĀTAKA.
the water up into his cane and drank, so, too, they all sat safe on the bank, and drank.
Thus the water-demon got not one of them into his power on their drinking the water, and he returned in sorrow to his own place. But the Bodisat and his troop went back again to the forest.
When the Teacher, having finished this discourse in illustration of his words ("The hollowness of these canes, mendicants, is a former command of mine"), he made the connexion, and summed up the Jātaka, saying: "He who was then the water-demon was Devadatta; the eighty thousand monkeys were the Buddha's retinue; but the monkey king, clever in resource, was I myself."
END OF THE STORY OF NAḶA-PĀNA.
