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Thig 3.4
PTS: Thig 39-62
Dantika and the Elephant
translated from the Pali by
Thanissaro Bhikkhu
Alternate translation: CAF Rhys Davids
Coming out from my day's abiding
on Vulture Peak Mountain,
I saw on the bank of a river
an elephant
emerged from its plunge.
A man holding a hook requested:
"Give me your foot."
The elephant
extended its foot.
The man
got up on the elephant.
Seeing what was untrained now tamed
brought under human control,
with that I centered my mind —
why I'd gone to the woods
in the first place.
©1997 Thanissaro Bhikkhu.
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Transcribed from a file provided by the translator. Last revised for Access to Insight on 4 August 2010.
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