I really liked this story. In this story there is a large group of monkeys who are all living very happily by a large mango tree. This mango tree supplies enough fruit to feed all the monkeys. The king is sure to warn everyone that they shouldn't let any of the fruit fall into the river because if they do, the men down stream will find it and search for the tree that it came from. They do a great job of keeping the fruit out of the river for a long time. Until one day, one gets away from them unnoticed and then men downstream find it. They go searching for the tree and they find it. They decide they should kill all the monkeys so that they can have all the fruit and the tree to themselves. The monkeys are trapped at the top of the tree because if they come down they will die. The king monkey uses himself as a bridge to help the other monkeys escape and they are all safe. The man king sees this and is so amazed by the monkey kings good deed that he decides not to harm any of those monkeys.
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| Monkeys in the Mango Tree Source: Inayat. Twenty Jataka Tales. |
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