Kingship

Jataka No. 8: the youngest of a hundred princes trusts his teacher the Bodhisatta completely, and quiet counsel wins him the throne and reconciles ninety-nine armed brothers without bloodshed.

Jātaka No. 7: a king denies the son he fathered with a woman gathering sticks, until the boy sits in mid-air and proves his birth by an Act of Truth.

A roof held up by its rafters, a citron eaten without its bitter peel, a lotus untouched by its own water: three images a counselor uses to correct a king.

A drought-stricken kingdom borrows a rain-bringing elephant and finds it is not enough, then learns an honest household's precepts were the real cause of rain.

Jātaka No. 151: two equal kings meet in a sunken road, and the one who conquers anger with gentleness and evil with good is given the way.

Given a crown to save a longing queen-mother, the Bodhisatta Susīma is woken to ageing by her grey-hair trick and leaves for the Himalayas.