--- title: Opening, part 7 — The grateful elephant · full text with trees description: Opening, part 7, «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: Thereupon Brahmadatta king of Kāsi exclaimed: “O how wonderful, O how marvelous, that this Prince Dīghāvu should understand in its fulness a mat --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/7/) [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 7 # Opening, part 7 Opening, part 7 of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame: the whole text, 163 sentences and 2589 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/pg74064/7/page/2/) Thereupon Brahmadatta king of Kāsi exclaimed: “O how wonderful, O how marvelous, that this Prince Dīghāvu should understand in its fulness a matter which his father expressed so briefly!”[1](1/ "tree and pragmatics") And he restored to him the army and vehicles and territory and treasuries and storehouses of his fathers, and gave him his daughter in marriage.[2](2/ "tree and pragmatics") “For, monks, of these kings who took the rod, who took the sword, such is said to have been the patience and gentleness.[3](3/ "tree and pragmatics") How much more, monks, should you, who have retired from the world under a Doctrine and Discipline so well taught, let your light so shine in this world as to be known of men as patient and gentle.”[4](4/ "tree and pragmatics") And for the third time the Exalted One said this to those monks: “Enough, monks\![5](5/ "tree and pragmatics") No quarreling\![6](6/ "tree and pragmatics") No brawling\![7](7/ "tree and pragmatics") No contending\![8](8/ "tree and pragmatics") No wrangling!”[9](9/ "tree and pragmatics") \_7.[10](10/ "tree and pragmatics") Antelope, Woodpecker, Tortoise, and Hunter.[11](11/ "tree and pragmatics") \_In union there is strength.[12](12/ "tree and pragmatics") Jātaka 206: ii.[13](13/ "tree and pragmatics") 152-155.[14](14/ "tree and pragmatics") On a certain occasion the Teacher related the following story:[15](15/ "tree and pragmatics") In times past, when Brahmadatta ruled at Benāres, the Future Buddha was an antelope and made his home in a certain thicket in a forest, not far from a certain lake.[16](16/ "tree and pragmatics") Not far from that same lake, on the tip of a certain tree, perched a woodpecker.[17](17/ "tree and pragmatics") Moreover in the lake a tortoise made his home.[18](18/ "tree and pragmatics") Thus did those three live together as friends, kindly affectionate one towards another.[19](19/ "tree and pragmatics") Now a certain hunter, on his way through the forest, seeing the tracks of the Future Buddha at the place where the animals went to drink, set a trap, resembling an iron foot-chain, only made of leathern strips, and went his way.[20](20/ "tree and pragmatics") In the very first watch of the night the Future Buddha, coming to drink of the water, became entangled in the trap and cried the cry of a captured animal.[21](21/ "tree and pragmatics") When he made that sound, from the tip of the tree came the woodpecker and out of the water came the tortoise.[22](22/ "tree and pragmatics") And they took counsel together, saying: “What’s to be done now?”[23](23/ "tree and pragmatics") Then said the woodpecker, addressing the tortoise: “Master, you have teeth; you saw this trap in two.[24](24/ "tree and pragmatics") I’ll go and manage things in such a way that that hunter sha’n’t come near.[25](25/ "tree and pragmatics") Thus, if the two of us do our very best, our friend will save his life.”[26](26/ "tree and pragmatics") And explaining this matter, he uttered the first stanza:[27](27/ "tree and pragmatics") Come, tortoise! use your teeth, and cut the leathern trap\![28](28/ "tree and pragmatics") I’ll manage things in such a way the hunter shall not come\![29](29/ "tree and pragmatics") The tortoise began to chew the strips of leather.[30](30/ "tree and pragmatics") The woodpecker went to the village where the hunter lived.[31](31/ "tree and pragmatics") At the first signs of dawn, the hunter took his knife and started to leave the house.[32](32/ "tree and pragmatics") The bird, observing that he was leaving the house, shrieked, flapped his wings, and struck him in the face just as he was coming out of the front door.[33](33/ "tree and pragmatics") Thought the hunter: “I have been struck by a bird of evil omen.”[34](34/ "tree and pragmatics") So he went back, lay down for a little while, and then got up again and took his knife.[35](35/ "tree and pragmatics") The bird knew: “This fellow first came out of the front door.[36](36/ "tree and pragmatics") This time he will come out of the back door.”[37](37/ "tree and pragmatics") So he went and perched back of the house.[38](38/ "tree and pragmatics") As for the hunter, he thought: “When I went out of the front door, I saw a bird of evil omen.[39](39/ "tree and pragmatics") This time I will go out of the back door.”[40](40/ "tree and pragmatics") So he went out of the back door.[41](41/ "tree and pragmatics") Again the bird shrieked, flew at him, and struck him in the face.[42](42/ "tree and pragmatics") The hunter, struck once again by that bird of evil omen, made up his mind: “That bird will not permit me to go out.”[43](43/ "tree and pragmatics") So he went back, lay down until the dawn came up, and when it was dawn, took his knife and went out.[44](44/ "tree and pragmatics") The bird went quickly and told the Future Buddha: “The hunter is coming!”[45](45/ "tree and pragmatics") At that moment the tortoise had chewed all of the strips except just one strap.[46](46/ "tree and pragmatics") But his teeth had got to the point where they were ready to drop, and his jaws were smeared with blood.[47](47/ "tree and pragmatics") The Future Buddha saw the hunter, knife in hand, coming on with lightning-speed.[48](48/ "tree and pragmatics") Rending that strap, he entered the wood.[49](49/ "tree and pragmatics") The bird perched on the tip of the tree.[50](50/ "tree and pragmatics") But the tortoise was so weak that he continued to lie right there.[51](51/ "tree and pragmatics") The hunter threw the tortoise into a sack and hung the sack on some stump or other.[52](52/ "tree and pragmatics") strips except just one strap.[53](53/ "tree and pragmatics") The Future Buddha came back, looked about, and perceived that the tortoise had been taken captive.[54](54/ "tree and pragmatics") “I will grant my friend the boon of life!” he resolved.[55](55/ "tree and pragmatics") So feigning weakness, he showed himself to the hunter.[56](56/ "tree and pragmatics") “That antelope must be very weak,” thought the hunter: “I will kill him.”[57](57/ "tree and pragmatics") And knife in hand, he started after him.[58](58/ "tree and pragmatics") The Future Buddha, keeping not too far away and not too near, led him on and entered the forest.[59](59/ "tree and pragmatics") When he thought he had gone far enough, he disguised his tracks, went by another path with the speed of the wind, lifted the sack on his horn, flung it on the ground, broke it open, and let out the tortoise.[60](60/ "tree and pragmatics") As for the woodpecker, he came down from the tree.[61](61/ "tree and pragmatics") The Future Buddha, admonishing his two friends, said: “I, through you, have obtained my life.[62](62/ "tree and pragmatics") You have done for me what a friend should do for a friend.[63](63/ "tree and pragmatics") At any moment the hunter may come and catch you.[64](64/ "tree and pragmatics") Therefore, Master woodpecker, do you take your fledglings and go elsewhere; and do you, Master tortoise, enter the water.”[65](65/ "tree and pragmatics") They did so.[66](66/ "tree and pragmatics") The Teacher, as Supreme Buddha, uttered the second stanza:[67](67/ "tree and pragmatics") The tortoise entered the water, The antelope entered the wood, The woodpecker from that dangerous path Took his fledglings far away.[68](68/ "tree and pragmatics") When the hunter returned to that spot and saw nothing at all, he took the tattered sack and went to his own house in deep dejection.[69](69/ "tree and pragmatics") As for those three friends, they lived all their lives long with never a break in their friendly relations, and then passed away according to their deeds.[70](70/ "tree and pragmatics") \_8.[71](71/ "tree and pragmatics") Brahmadatta and Mallika.[72](72/ "tree and pragmatics") \_Overcome evil with good.[73](73/ "tree and pragmatics") Jātaka 151: ii.[74](74/ "tree and pragmatics") 1-5.[75](75/ "tree and pragmatics") On a certain occasion king Pasenadi Kosala, after deciding litigations in the Hall of Justice, came hastily to pay his respects to the Teacher.[76](76/ "tree and pragmatics") Said the Teacher: “Great king, to decide litigations righteously and justly is a good thing.[77](77/ "tree and pragmatics") It is the Path to Heaven.[78](78/ "tree and pragmatics") But this is no remarkable thing, that you, receiving admonition from an Omniscient Buddha like me, should decide litigations righteously and justly.[79](79/ "tree and pragmatics") This alone is remarkable, that kings of old, listening to the words of men who were wise but not omniscient, decided litigations righteously and justly, avoided the Four Evil Courses, kept inviolate the Ten Royal Virtues, ruled justly, and departed fulfilling the Path to Heaven.”[80](80/ "tree and pragmatics") Then, in response to a request of the king, he related the following Story of the Past:[81](81/ "tree and pragmatics") In times past, when Brahmadatta ruled at Benāres, the Future Buddha received a new existence as the child of his chief consort.[82](82/ "tree and pragmatics") On his name-day he was given the name Prince Brahmadatta.[83](83/ "tree and pragmatics") In due time he grew up.[84](84/ "tree and pragmatics") When he was sixteen years old, he went to Takkasilā, acquired proficiency in all the arts and crafts, and on the death of his father, became established in the kingdom.[85](85/ "tree and pragmatics") He ruled righteously and justly.[86](86/ "tree and pragmatics") He avoided the Four Evil Courses in rendering judgments.[87](87/ "tree and pragmatics") Since he himself ruled so righteously, the ministers of justice also transacted their affairs with an eye to righteousness alone.[88](88/ "tree and pragmatics") Since the ministers of justice transacted their affairs righteously, there were no men who brought dishonest litigations.[89](89/ "tree and pragmatics") For lack of them, hubbub over litigations in the king’s courtyard ceased.[90](90/ "tree and pragmatics") Every day ministers of justice took their seats in the place of litigation, but seeing no one come for litigation, departed.[91](91/ "tree and pragmatics") The place of litigation became abandoned.[92](92/ "tree and pragmatics") **1** [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/7/page/2/) - ← previous: [Opening, part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/6/) - next →: [page 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/7/page/2/) - ↑ back to [The grateful elephant](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/)