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“Who is the one who brings the food”—This story the Master told during a stay in Jetavana, how a quarrel was made up between two magnates of the king’s court in Kosala. The circumstances have been told in the Second Book. The Jataka was not translated in the original, due to its sexual content. The Jātaka, or Stories of the Buddha’s Former Births, edited by E.B. Cowell, published by The Cambridge University Press. Vol. 1, translated by Robert Chalmers, 1895. Vol. 2, translated by W.H.D. Rouse, 1895. Vol. 3, translated by H.T. Francis and R.A. Neil, 1897. Vol. 4, translated by W.H.D. Rouse, 1901. Vol. 5, translated by H.T. Francis, 1905. Vol. 6, translated by E.B. Cowell and W.H.D. Rouse, 1907. These translations are in the public domain. You are free to do whatever you like with them. Scanned, proofed and formatted at sacred-texts.com, January 2006–February 2010, by John Bruno Hare and others. Thanks to the Sacred Texts Archive for making these texts available in digital form. Prepared for SuttaCentral by Bhikkhu Sujato.