Chapter XVII: A Lesson for Kings

_Source._--_Rajovada Jataka_, Fausböll, No. 151, tr. Rhys-Davids, pp. xxii.-vi.

_Remarks._--This is one of the earliest of moral allegories in existence. The moralising tone of the Jatakas must be conspicuous to all reading them. Why, they can moralise even the Tar Baby (see _infra_, Note on "Demon with the Matted Hair," No. xxv.).