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A mountain stag fell in love with a doe who had gone into the forest from the
village during the time of the ripening of the corn. When the time came for the
doe to return to the village, the stag, in his love, accompanied her. The people
of the village, knowing of the deer's return, lay in ambush for them. The doe,
seeing a huntsman, sent the stag on ahead, and he was killed and eaten. The doe
escaped. The Bodhisatta, who was a forest-deva, seeing the incident, preached to
the other forest-dwellers on the three infamies:
- it is infamy to cause another's death;
- infamous is the land ruled by a woman:
- infamous are the men who yield themselves to women's dominance
(J.i.153-6).
The circumstances in which the story was related are given in the
Indriya Jātaka.

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