{"id":"ja38","title":"The Crane: a past life story","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"ja38","title":"The Crane: a past life story","units":[{"id":"ja38:0","sourceIds":["ja38:0.1","ja38:0.2","ja38:0.3","ja38:0.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Jātaka\nEkakanipāta\nKulāvakavagga\n8. Bakajātaka","en":"Stories of Past Lives 38\nThe Book of the Ones\nNests\nThe Crane: a past life story"}},{"id":"ja38:1","sourceIds":["ja38:1.1","ja38:1.2","ja38:1.3","ja38:1.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Nāccantaṁ nikatippañño,\nnikatyā sukhamedhati;\nĀrādheti nikatippañño,\nbako kakkaṭakāmivā”ti.","en":"The clever cheat cannot achieve\nultimate happiness by cheating.\nThe clever cheat succeeds only\nin getting what the crane did from the crab."}},{"id":"ja38:2","sourceIds":["ja38:2.1"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Bakajātakaṁ aṭṭhamaṁ."}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/ja38/en/sujato","licence":"CC0 1.0","licenceUrl":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/","editionNote":"Full supplied source file; inherited abbreviations are preserved. Not a reconstructed expansion of every repetition. No Malay or Mandarin translation is implied."}