Then the Teacher said, “Thus then, O monk, you have already in a former birth lost your life through her, and become food for the multitude.” And when he had concluded this lesson in virtue, he proclaimed the Truths. When the Truths were over, that love-sick monk stood fast in the Fruit of Conversion. But the Teacher made the connexion, and summed up the Jātaka, by saying, “He who at that time was ‘Sausages’ the pig was the love-sick monk, the fat girl was as she is now, Little-red was Ānanda, but Big-red was I myself.” END OF THE STORY OF THE OX WHO ENVIED THE PIG.[317] CHAPTER IV. KULĀVAKAVAGGA. No. 31. KULĀVAKA JĀTAKA. On Mercy to Animals. “_Let the Nestlings in the wood._”--This the Master told while at Jetavana, about a monk who drank water without straining it. Two young monks who were friends, it is said, went into the country from Sāvatthi; and after stopping as long as it suited them in a certain pleasant spot, set out again towards Jetavana, with the intention of joining the Supreme Buddha. One of them had a strainer, the other had not; so they used to strain water enough at one time for both to drink. One day they had a dispute; and the owner of the strainer would not lend it to the other, but strained water himself, and drank it. When the other could not get the strainer, and was unable to bear up any longer against his thirst, he drank without straining. And in due course they both arrived at Jetavana; and after saluting the Teacher, took their seats. The Teacher bade them welcome, saying, “Where are you come from?” “Lord! we have been staying in a village in the land of Kosala; and we left it to come here and visit you.” “I hope, then, you are come in concord.” The one without a strainer replied, “Lord! this monk quarrelled with me on the way, and wouldn’t lend me his strainer!” But the other one said, “Lord! this monk knowingly drank water with living things in it without straining it!” “Is it true, O monk, as he says, that you knowingly drank water with living creatures in it?” “Yes, Lord! I drank the water as it was.” Then the Teacher said, “There were wise men once, O monk, ruling in heaven, who, when defeated and in full flight along the mighty deep, stopped their car, saying, ’Let us not, for the sake of supremacy, put living things to pain;’ and made sacrifice of all their glory, and even of their life, for the sake of the young of the Supaṇṇas.” And he told a tale.[318] * * * * * Long ago a king of Magadha was reigning in Rājagaha, in the land of Magadha. At that time the Bodisat (just as he who is now Sakka was once born in the village of Macala in Magadha) was born in that very village as a nobleman’s son. On the naming-day they gave him the name of Prince Magha, and when he grew up he was known as ‘Magha the young Brāhman.’