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29.— KAṆHA JĀTAKA.

Then the Blessed One told them, "At that time, O mendicants, only the Black Bull could drag the load." And he then made the connexion and summed up the Jātaka: "The old woman of that time was Uppala-vaṇṇā, but 'the old woman's Blackie' was I myself."


END OF THE STORY OF THE OLD WOMAN'S BLACK BULL.[1]

  1. It will be observed that the old woman's 'Blackie' could understand what was said to him, and make his own meaning understood; but he could not speak.