[248] "Therefore, headman (gāmapati), I say this to you:
when life was hard and meager,
an agreement (saṅgara) was made for two months;
yet for the flesh of an old, lean ox
you demand payment before the appointed time has come —
that too does not please me."
The Gahapati Jātaka, the ninth.
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#1 Ma.: mummure upakūthito ti. 2 Ma.: nāddasaṃ. 3 Sī., Yu.: kāraṃ katvā. [Variant readings from the edition's apparatus; notes 1–2 refer to the preceding verse.]
10. The Sādhusīla Jātaka
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.