Week 13 Planning: The Great War

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The crane and the crab: Wikimedia commons

Reading notes:

  • Banyan led a group of 500 deer and Branch led a group of another 500 deer
  • The King of Benares went to hunt these deer everyday, but trampled over the peasants fields when he went to hunt
  • The peasants grew tired of this, so they hatched a plan to captured the deer and lead them into the palace woods
  • After the palace woods were created, the deer were drove in
  • To drive the deer in, the men surrounded the forest on all sides and drove the deer into the palace woods and closed the fence to the palace woods
  • The king saw all of the deer and ordered that Banyan and Branch not be killed because they were golden
  • Everyday, the king went out and hunted the deer until the deer gave up 
  • The deer decided one a day would go lay their head on a rock, so they could live peacefully and not be afraid of random death anymore
  • The deer chosen was random until it got to a mother who had  young deer
  • The mother begged with Branch until Banyan decided to go in her place
  • When the King saw Banyan on the rock, he said that he would not kill him and why his head was on the rock
  • When the king heard the reasoning, he let the deer free
Additional Reading:
  • There is very little additional reading to do because they are Jataka tales and the only additional reading is over Jataka tales, but I have done that previously
Plan for story:
  • My plan for the story is to keep the deer as the main characters
  • Instead of having all of the peasants bring the deer into the palace woods, my plan is to have them so fed up that they start a war with the deer 
  • The peasants goal is to make sure that their are no more deer in the woods to hunt
Bibliography: 
  • Title: Twenty Jataka Tales
  • Author: Noor Inayat 
  • Source: Babel

Comments

  1. Laura GibbsApril 22, 2018 at 10:03 AM

    Hi Trace! I just happened to see your post here; the best research to do for the Jatakas is to read one of the ancient Buddhist versions as told by the Buddha himself, and you can find that here in English, which shows how the Buddha used this story to teach his followers (like a parable, except that the Buddha, in a past life, is a character in the story!):
    NIGRODHAMIGA-JĀTAKA

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