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Thig 3.4
Dantika and the Elephant
Translated from the Pali by
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PTS: vv. 39-62
Source: From Taming the Mind: Discourses of the Buddha (WH 51), edited by the Buddhist Publication Society (Kandy: Buddhist Publication Society, 1983). Copyright © 1983 Buddhist Publication Society. Used with permission.
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Coming from noonday-rest on Vulture's Peak I saw an elephant, his bathing done, Forth from the river issue. And a man, Taking his goad, bade the great creature stretch His foot: Obeyed, and to his neck the driver sprang. I saw the untamed tamed, I saw him bent To master's will; and making inwardly, I passed into the forest depths and there I' faith I trained and ordered all my heart.