011.2 – Lukkana (part 2)
[Continued from the previous part ...]
On those days, the Buddha once was a hog deer. He was a leader of one thousands hog deers. He had two sons, Lukkana and Kala.
When he got old, he called his two sons and said “My sons. Now I’m old. It’s time for you to rule our group.” He splitted the group into two groups, each group has five hundreds hog deers, and let each son to rule each group.
At that time, villagers had set up many traps to trap hog deers because they like to eat rice sprouts which were cropped by villagers. The hog deer father knew about this and ordered his sons “My two sons, there was a lot of rice sprouts. Our hog deers will be caught by villagers. You should bring your group to the hill in the forest and come back when all rice have been harvested.”
Kala and his group headed for the forest at daytime, many of them walked through the village and were caught dead by villagers.
Lukkana knew that they should travel at night and should not passed the village. He could safely leaded all his hog deers to the forest.
Five months passed, after humans had harvested all rice. They went down from the hill. And again, Kala lost all hog deers because he leaded his group to passed the villages at daytime while Lukkana could bring all hog deers back safely.
Kala finally reincarnated as Devadatta. Kala’s group of hog deers finally reincarnated as Devadatta’s followers. Lukkana finally reincarnated as Saribudra, a famous Buddhist saint. Lukkana’s group of hog deers finally reincarnated as Buddha’s monks. The father finally reincarnated as the Buddha.