{"collection":"Khuddaka Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_cp19/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_cp19","id":"suttacentral_cp19","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/cp19/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Khuddaka Nikaya"],"text":"\u201cIn the kingdom of Pa\u00f1c\u0101la, in the eminent city, the capital named Kapil\u0101, the king named Jayaddisa was furnished with virtuous qualities. I was that king\u2019s son, well educated and virtuous; Al\u012bnasattu of fine qualities, I always cared for the attendants. My father had gone deer hunting when he came across a cannibal, who seized my father, saying, \u2018You are my prey, don\u2019t move!\u2019 When he heard these words, he was scared and trembled with fear, his thighs became stiff when he saw the cannibal. \u2018Let me go, take the deer meat!\u2019 he said, \u2018I promise to return.\u2019 Having paid the brahmin, my father said to me: \u2018Son, rule the realm. Do not neglect this city. I promised the cannibal that I will return.\u2019 I bowed to my mother and father, and substituted myself. Tossing my bow and sword, I approached the cannibal. Perhaps if I have weapons in hand that might make him afraid. And that would violate my ethics, were I to frighten him. For fear of violating my ethics, I said nothing hateful to him. Lovingly and beneficially, I said the following. \u2018Kindle a great fire. I will drop into it from a tree. When you know I am cooked, eat me, Grandfather.\u2019 And so for the sake of my ethical vows I did not protect my life. And I drove out forever his attacks on living creatures.\u201d","title":"Al\u012bnasattu\u2019s Conduct","tradition":"Khuddaka Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":231}