[77] Bulls, trees, cows, and oxen,
a horse, a dish, a she-jackal,¹ and a pot,
a lotus pond, [rice] that would not cook, and sandalwood,
gourds sink, rocks float,
she-frogs swallow black snakes,
golden [geese] surround a crow,
and wolves trembling in fear of goats —
such a reversal [of the natural order] is at work; there is nothing of it here.
¹ The Burmese edition reads "siṅgālī."
The Mahāsupina Jātaka, the seventh.
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8. The Illīsa Jātaka
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.