--- title: Opening, part 16 — The grateful elephant · full text with trees description: Opening, part 16, «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: Now at that moment the wise boar awoke, and hearing the words of the lioness, was delighted, and thought to himself: “This is the fruit of the --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/16/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The grateful elephant](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/) / Opening, part 16 # Opening, part 16 Opening, part 16 of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame: the whole text, 122 sentences and 2698 words. The small number after every sentence leads to its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself. **1** [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/16/page/2/) Now at that moment the wise boar awoke, and hearing the words of the lioness, was delighted, and thought to himself: “This is the fruit of the merit which I have acquired in previous states of existence.[1](1/ "tree and pragmatics") I will satisfy the hunger of my friends with my own body and blood.”[2](2/ "tree and pragmatics") Then the wise boar arose from his bed and went out of his cave and said to the lion: “My good friend, do not despair.[3](3/ "tree and pragmatics") For here I am, ready to be eaten by you and your mate and your cub.[4](4/ "tree and pragmatics") Eat me, O lion!”[5](5/ "tree and pragmatics") Now when the lion heard these words, he was delighted, and said to his mate: “Let our cub eat first; then I will eat, and you shall eat after me.”[6](6/ "tree and pragmatics") The lioness agreed.[7](7/ "tree and pragmatics") So first the cub ate some of the flesh of the wise boar, and then the lion began to eat.[8](8/ "tree and pragmatics") And while he was eating, the wise boar said to him: “Be quick and drink my blood before it sinks into the ground, and satisfy your hunger with my flesh, and let your mate eat what is left.”[9](9/ "tree and pragmatics") So the lion gradually devoured the flesh until only the bones were left.[10](10/ "tree and pragmatics") But--wonderful to relate!--the wise boar did not die, for his life remained in him, as if to see how long his endurance would endure.[11](11/ "tree and pragmatics") In the meantime the lioness died of hunger in the cave, and the lion went off somewhere or other with his cub, and so the night came to an end.[12](12/ "tree and pragmatics") Then the monkey awoke and went out of the cave, and seeing the wise boar reduced to a heap of bones, became greatly excited and exclaimed: “What reduced you to a heap of bones?[13](13/ "tree and pragmatics") Tell me, O friend, if you can.”[14](14/ "tree and pragmatics") So the wise boar told him the whole story.[15](15/ "tree and pragmatics") Then the monkey did reverence to the wise boar, and said to him: “Tell me what you wish me to do, and I will do it.”[16](16/ "tree and pragmatics") The wise boar replied: “I wish only to have my body restored to me like as it was before, and to have the lioness that died of hunger restored to life again, that she may satisfy her hunger with my body and blood.”[17](17/ "tree and pragmatics") Thereupon, as the fruit of the merit which the wise boar had acquired, he was transformed into a sage, and the monkey into a sage likewise.[18](18/ "tree and pragmatics") \_26.[19](19/ "tree and pragmatics") Fairy-Prince and Griffin.[20](20/ "tree and pragmatics") “\_Eat me, O griffin\![21](21/ "tree and pragmatics") Adapted from C. H. Tawney, Ocean of the Streams of Story (Kathāsaritsāgara), Chapters 22 and 90.[22](22/ "tree and pragmatics") On a ridge of the Himālaya stands a city called the Golden City, for it gleams from afar like the rays of the sun. And in that city, once upon a time, lived the king of the fairies, and his name was Jīmūta-ketu.[23](23/ "tree and pragmatics") And in the garden of his palace grew a wishing-tree, and its name was Granter of Desires, for it granted all desires.[24](24/ "tree and pragmatics") By the favor of that tree the king obtained a son, who was none other than the Future Buddha, and his name was Jīmūta-vāhana.[25](25/ "tree and pragmatics") He was valiant in generosity, of mighty courage, and compassionate towards all living beings.[26](26/ "tree and pragmatics") When Jīmūta-vāhana was become of age, his father made him crown-prince.[27](27/ "tree and pragmatics") Thus did he become the fairy-prince.[28](28/ "tree and pragmatics") And when he had become the fairy-prince, the ministers of the kingdom came to him and said: “O fairy-prince, do reverence always to this wishing-tree, for it grants all desires, and cannot be resisted by any living creature.[29](29/ "tree and pragmatics") For so long as we possess this tree, we cannot suffer injury of any kind from anyone, even from Indra, king of the gods, much less from any other.”[30](30/ "tree and pragmatics") When Jīmūta-vāhana heard these words, he thought to himself: “Alas! our forefathers, for all their possession of this noble tree, obtained by the favor of this tree naught but wealth and victory over their enemies; thus did they demean themselves, and thus did they demean this tree likewise.[31](31/ "tree and pragmatics") For no such purposes as these will I employ this tree.[32](32/ "tree and pragmatics") For I know that the good things of this world endure but for a short while, and then perish and vanish utterly.[33](33/ "tree and pragmatics") But friendliness and compassion and generosity towards all living beings yield abundant fruit, both in this world and in the next.[34](34/ "tree and pragmatics") As for wealth, if it be not used for the benefit of others, it is like lightning which for an instant stings the eye, and then flickers and vanishes.[35](35/ "tree and pragmatics") Therefore if this wishing-tree which we possess, and which grants all desires, be employed for the benefit of others, we shall reap from it all the fruit that it can give.[36](36/ "tree and pragmatics") Accordingly I will so act that by the wealth of this tree all living beings shall be delivered from poverty and distress.”[37](37/ "tree and pragmatics") Then Jīmūta-vāhana went to the wishing-tree and said: “O tree-spirit, thou that dost grant to us the fruit that we desire, fulfil to-day this one wish of mine: Deliver all living beings from poverty and distress.”[38](38/ "tree and pragmatics") Straightway--wonderful to relate!--the wishing-tree showered a shower of gold upon the earth, and all living beings rejoiced thereat and became well-disposed to Jīmūta-vāhana, and the fame and glory of him spread both near and far.[39](39/ "tree and pragmatics") But the relatives of Jīmūta-ketu, seeing that his throne was firmly established by the glory of his son, were moved to jealousy and became hostile to him.[40](40/ "tree and pragmatics") And because the kingdom of Jīmūta-ketu was weak, they determined to attack it and overthrow it, and to take possession of the wishing-tree that granted all desires.[41](41/ "tree and pragmatics") And they assembled and met together and began preparations to attack the kingdom of Jīmūta-ketu and to overthrow it and to take possession of the wishing-tree that granted all desires.[42](42/ "tree and pragmatics") Thereupon Jīmūta-vāhana the fairy-prince said to Jīmūta-ketu the fairy-king his father: “Why should we seek to obtain new wealth, or to retain the wealth that we possess?[43](43/ "tree and pragmatics") Is not this body of ours like a bubble in the water, which bursts in an instant and vanishes?[44](44/ "tree and pragmatics") Is it not like a candle, which, when it is exposed to the wind, flickers for an instant and goes out?[45](45/ "tree and pragmatics") Should a wise man desire to obtain wealth or to retain it when it is obtained, by the killing of living beings?[46](46/ "tree and pragmatics") I will not fight with my relatives.[47](47/ "tree and pragmatics") Therefore I will leave my kingdom and go to some forest-hermitage.[48](48/ "tree and pragmatics") Let these miserable wretches do as they like, but let us not kill the members of our own family.”[49](49/ "tree and pragmatics") And Jīmūta-ketu the fairy-king said to Jīmūta-vāhana the fairy-prince his son: “Then will I too go, my son.[50](50/ "tree and pragmatics") For what desire for rule can I have, who am old, when you, who are young, out of compassion towards all living beings, abandon your kingdom as though it were so much straw and stubble?”[51](51/ "tree and pragmatics") Thereupon Jīmūta-vāhana, with his father and mother, went to the Malaya mountain, and took up his abode in a forest-hermitage, the dwelling of the fairy-magicians, the Siddhas, where the brooks were hidden by the sandalwood trees, and devoted himself to the care of his father and mother.[52](52/ "tree and pragmatics") One day, as he was roaming about with a companion, he came to a wood on the shore of the sea.[53](53/ "tree and pragmatics") There he saw many heaps of bones.[54](54/ "tree and pragmatics") And he said to his companion: “Whose bones are these?”[55](55/ "tree and pragmatics") His companion replied: “Give ear, and I will tell you the story in a few words.”[56](56/ "tree and pragmatics") \_Griffin and snakes.[57](57/ "tree and pragmatics") In times past Kadrū and Vinatā, the two wives of Kashyapa, had a quarrel.[58](58/ "tree and pragmatics") Kadrū said that the horses of the Sun were black, and Vinatā said that they were white, and they made a wager that whichever of the two was wrong should become a slave of the other.[59](59/ "tree and pragmatics") Then Kadrū, bent on winning, actually induced her sons the snakes to defile the horses of the Sun by spitting venom over them; and showing them to Vinatā thus defiled, she conquered her by a trick and made her her slave.[60](60/ "tree and pragmatics") **1** [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/16/page/2/) - ← previous: [Opening, part 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/15/) - next →: [page 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/16/page/2/) - ↑ back to [The grateful elephant](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/)