{"collection":"Khuddaka Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_cp30/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_cp30","id":"suttacentral_cp30","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/cp30/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Khuddaka Nikaya"],"text":"\u201cThen again when I was a fish king in a great lake, in the heat of the sun the water in the lake evaporated. Then crows and vultures, herons, hawks, and falcons, perched near the fish and devoured them day and night. There I had the following thought, being harassed with my relatives: \u2018By what means can I free my relatives from this suffering?\u2019 Considering the value of the Dhamma, I saw the truth as a support. Standing in the truth, I freed my relatives from that holocaust. Recollecting the true Dhamma, considered the ultimate goal, I made a declaration of truth that would last eternally in the world. \u2018So long as I can recall myself, since I became aware, I do not recall deliberately harming even a single living creature. By this declaration of truth, may Pajjuna rain down! Thunder forth, Pajjuna! Disperse the trove of the crow! Subject the crow to sorrow, and free the fish from sorrow!\u2019 As this excellent truth was declared, Pajjuna thundered forth. In an instant the rain poured down, soaking the uplands and valleys. Having made such supreme effort for this excellent truth, I made the great cloud pour down, relying on the force of the power of truth. There is no one to equal my truthfulness: this is my perfection of truth.\u201d","title":"The Fish King\u2019s Conduct","tradition":"Khuddaka Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":220}