Bharat Devotion

Justice

Jataka Tales

A corrupt sword-tester loses his nose to a sneeze; a prince uses one of his own to win a forbidden princess, then forgives the man who lost his.

Jātaka No. 38: a crane tricks a pond of fish, then meets a crab with a stronger grip. The Buddha tells it about a robe-tailor monk who cheated others.

A corrupt chaplain engineers a prince's sacrifice for a false path to heaven, until the prince's wife speaks a truth that brings a god to intervene.

A corrupt royal chaplain's mixed karma earns him nightly bliss with sixteen thousand goddesses, but by day he must tear and eat his own back's flesh.

A king orders every street dog killed for a crime his own pampered hounds committed, until their fearless leader proves the truth and wins mercy for all.

A merchant claiming he deserves a larger share of the profit hides his own father inside a tree to fake a spirit's verdict, until smoke exposes him.

A king plants his own crest-jewel on an innocent householder to steal his wife, until Sakka descends and swaps the two men's fates at the execution block.

Born to a brahmin held captive by a horse-faced yakkha, the Bodhisatta escapes with a footprint-tracing charm and exposes the king and his own chaplain as the thieves of the royal treasury.

A prince who understands animal speech is feared by his father, who flees a siege and is murdered by a treacherous servant; years later, the truth comes out.

A courtesan ransoms a condemned robber, and when he lures her up a mountain to kill her for her jewels, her own quick wit sends him off the cliff instead.

A greedy king dismisses his honest valuer for a fool who prices five hundred horses at one measure of rice, and the fool's own greed exposes him.