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Kalanduka Jātaka (No.127)
Kalanduka was the servant of the Treasurer of Benares. He ran away, and with
the help of a forged letter, just as did Katāhaka,
married the daughter of a border merchant.
The Treasurer sent a parrot to seek for him. The parrot saw him hawking and
spitting out milk at his wife's head in order to assert his power, and, wishing
to teach him a lesson, threatened to expose him. The Treasurer, hearing from the
parrot of Kalanduka's whereabouts, had him brought back and reduced again to
slavedom. J. i.458.

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