Sālikedārajātaka

Suttapiṭaka · Khuddakanikāya · Jātaka (1) · Vol. 27 · Section 1872

[1872] "Parrots are eating the well-ripened field of sāli rice, Kosiya! I report it to you, brahmin: I am not able to ward them off. And there is one bird there who is the most beautiful of them all: having eaten sāli rice as much as he pleases, he takes some with his beak and departs."

English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.