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Ja 22 Hounds: a past life story

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Ja 22 - Hounds: a past life story
Translated by Bhikkhu Sujato
Source: https://suttacentral.net/ja22/en/sujato
License: CC0-1.0

Stories of Past Lives 22
The Book of the Ones
The Four-horned Antelope
Hounds: a past life story
The dogs raised in the royal family,
pedigreed, handsome and strong,
are not slaughtered, we are slaughtered—
this is not the mutts deserving death, this is the killing of the weak.