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34. — THE FISH AND HIS WIFE.
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the river-side, and said to it, "My good fish! Had I not caught sight of you this day, you would have lost your life. Now henceforth sin no more!"
And so exhorting it, he threw it into the water, and returned to the city.
When the Teacher had finished this discourse, he proclaimed the Truths. At the end of the Truths the depressed monk was established in the fruit of conversion. Then the Teacher made the connexion, and summed up the Jātaka: "She who at that time was the female fish was the former wife, the fish was the depressed monk, but the chaplain was I myself."
END OF THE STORY OF THE FISH AND HIS WIFE.[1]
- ↑ This story has several points of affinity with the one above, No. 13 (pp. 211-213), on the stag who came to his death through his thoughtless love for the roe.
