Ja 31 - Nests: a past life story
Translated by Bhikkhu Sujato
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Stories of Past Lives 31
The Book of the Ones
Nests
Nests: a past life story
Mātali, don’t ram the bird nests
in the red silk-cotton woods with your draft-pole.
I’d rather give up our lives to the titans
than deprive these birds of their nests.