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suffering greatly from illness, tormented; This body quickly withers away, like a flower placed in dust in the sun. 128. The ignoble called noble, the impure considered pure; Filled with various corpses, not seeing the noble form. 129. Shame! This body, sick, putrid, loathsome, impure, subject to disease; Where heedless, infatuated beings, lose the path to a good rebirth. The third, Kāyanibbinda Jātaka. 294. Jambukhādaka Jātaka (3-5-4) 130. Who is this with a clear, lovely voice, the best of those who sing? Perched on a rose-apple branch, he coos like a peacock chick. 131. Only a noble one knows, how to praise a noble one. O you with the complexion of a tiger cub, eat, friend, I give to you. 132. It's been a long time since I've seen, liars gathered together; a vomiter and a corpse-eater, praising each other. The fourth, Jambukhādaka Jātaka. 295. Anta Jātaka (3-5-5) 133. Your shoulder is like a bull's, your yawn like a lion's; Homage to you, king of beasts, may we obtain something. 134. Only a noble one knows, how to praise a noble one. O you, like a peacock's neck, go from here, crow. 135. Among animals, the jackal is the lowest, among birds, it is the crow; the castor plant is the lowest among trees, these three lowest ones have met. The fifth, Anta Jātaka. 296. Samudda Jātaka (3-5-6) 136. Who is this in the salty water, running all around; keeping fish and crocodiles away, and being struck by the waves? 137. The bird, drinking endlessly, is known in all directions as insatiable; I wish to drink the ocean, the sea, the lord of rivers. 138. It (the ocean) diminishes, and the great ocean fills up; its end is not reached by drinking, indeed, the ocean is undrinkable. The sixth, Samudda Jātaka. 297. Kāmavilāpa Jātaka (3-5-7) 139. Flying high, O bird, soaring, O winged one; You should tell the beautiful-thighed one, that she will long remember. 140. This she does not know, that a sword and spear are drawn; That fierce one will become angry, that to me This does not burn. 141. This lotus garland, placed on the head with a gold necklace; And soft Kasi cloth, may it please the dear creditor. The Jātaka of Lamenting for Pleasures, the seventh. 298. The Udumbara Jātaka (3-5-8) 142. These Udumbara figs are ripe, and Banyan and Kapittha fruits; Come forth and eat, why do you die of hunger? 143. Thus is he satisfied, who serves the elders; As I am satisfied today, having eaten tree fruits. 144. If a forest monkey should deceive another forest monkey; A young monkey might believe, but not an old, aged monkey. The Udumbara Jātaka, the eighth. 299. The Komāraputta Jātaka (3-5-9) 145. Formerly you, in the presence of the virtuous, played, jumping about in the hermitage; Do your monkey tricks, O monkey, we virtuous ones do not delight in that. 146. Indeed I have heard of the supreme purity of Komāraputta, the learned one; Do not now consider me as before, I dwell devoted to meditation, friend. 147. Even if one should sow seed on a rock, and the god should rain, it would not grow; Indeed that supreme purity has been heard by you, but far are you, O monkey, from the ground of meditation. The Komāraputta Jātaka, the ninth. 300. The Vaka Jātaka (3-5-10) 148. Living by killing other beings, eating flesh and blood; The wolf, having undertaken a vow, entered upon the Uposatha. 149. Sakka, knowing his vow, approached in the form of a goat; The blood-drinker, having lost his asceticism, broke his vow when it came near. 150. Just so some here, are weak in undertaking vows; They easily make themselves, The crane itself was the cause of the goat. The Crane Jātaka, the tenth. The Pot Chapter, the fifth. Its Summary – Excellent Pot, Good Leaf, Sirivhaya, Pure, Approved, Drop-lake, Bull; Lord of Rivers, Fierce, Old Monkey, Then with the Female Monkey, with the Crane, thus ten. Now the Chapter Summary – Thought and Lotus, With the Well, the third; Inner, Pot-breaking, Thus adorned is the Tikanipāta. The Tikanipāta is finished.