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.

One day, while he was on a mango tree, he saw a hog deer standing and observing the tree.

Noticing that, the hunter thrown a mango and then the mango was dropped in front of the hog deer.

Wondering why the mango was dropped too far from the tree, the hog deer looked up and found that there was a hunter on the tree.

The hog deer pretended that it didn’t see the hunter and said “The mango tree ! I know that you throw a mango to deceive me. I will prowl at another place.” and then turned back.

The hunter went down but was unable to catch the hog deer, he said “This time, I missed you.”

The hog deer looked back and said “Even though you missed me this time, but you won’t miss a hell in the next life because you had committed many sins.” and then went away.

When the hunter died, he was born in hell and was suffered for many lives.

The hunter finally reincarnated as Devadatta. The hog deer finally reincarnated as the Buddha.

Moral: If we have commit a sin, although we won’t be punished in this life, we will be punished in the next life or later.

Unfortunately, the king was much addicted to hunting for hog deer so followers couldn’t do anything except following him in the jungle. To safe time, followers has fenced out a small jungle and herded numbers of hog deer into the jungle for the king to easily hunt hog deers.

The king sometimes went to hunt a hog deer by himself; sometimes he ordered a chef to hunt a hog deer for him. Everytime they were hunted, there was a chaos in hog deers and it was problem for old hog deers, pregnant hog deers, and nursing mother hog deers.

Therefore, Nikroth and Saka agreed that everyday they should alternately select one hog deer from their group and get him or her to wait for being hunted in the appointed area.

One day, it was a turn for a hog deer that was far gone in pregnancy. She begged Saka that let her give a birth to her child before being killed. Saka had rejected her request, so she went to see Nikroth and ask him to save her baby. Nikroth said that he would be a prey for that day instead.

Nikroth went to the appointed area and laid down waiting to be hunted. When the time for hunting had arrived, because Nikroth was a king of hog deer, a chef didn’t dare to shoot him. The chef went back and told the king about this.

After a while, the king came to the jungle and asked Nikroth “Why did you lay down here ?”

Nikroth replied “I’m here because today it’s actually a turn of a pregnant hog deer. She is so pity. I can’t let her to be killed.”

Being sorrowful, the king said “From today, I’ll stop killing animal.” and ordered his followers to free all animals in the jungle.

Saka finally reincarnated as Devadatta. Nikroth finally reincarnated as the Buddha.

Moral: Leaders shouldn’t abandon followers while having a hard time.

Her brother accepted and told the young hog deer to come for study at scheduled time. The young hog deer came and attentively studied hog deer trick every day.

One day, while the young hog deer was prowling with his friends, he was accidentally ensnared by hunter’s net. He yelled loudly so his friend was panic and ran away.

Heard that his son was ensnared, the mother was much worried. Her brother said to her “Don’t be worried. Your son has learned all hog deer tricks, he will escape and come back soon.”

Her brother continued “He has learned to hold breath. He know how to inhale and exhale with his bottom nostril which is close to the ground. He will deceive hunter that he was dead.”

When the hunter appeared, the young hog deer spread all his legs, lied on his side, pawed sand and dust randomly, lolled his tongue, broadened out his belly, excreted, and hold his breath. The hunter saw this and thought that the young hog deer was dead, so he released the net and walked away to bring a knife, intended to slice the young hog deer.

The young hog deer stood up quickly and ran away safely.

The young hog deer finally reincarnated as Rahul, the son of the Buddha. The mother’s brother finally reincarnated as the Buddha.

Moral: Being obedient is good, and not only human has tricks.

Her brother accepted and told the young hog deer to come for study at scheduled time.

Instead of going to study as ordered, the young hog deer naughtily scounted around by himself.

The mother didn’t see his son for long time, so she went to see his brother and asked for his son. The brother said “Don’t ask for your stubborn child.  He didn’t come here for seven days.”

At last, the young hog deer was ensnared by hunter’s net and was killed easily by the hunter.

The young hog deer finally reincarnated as a stubborn monk. The mother’s brother finally reincarnated as Mrs. Ubolwanna. The mother finally reincarnated as the Buddha.

Moral: Being stubborn is not good at all.

One day, when the leader got older, he split the followers into two groups, each group contains five hundred hog deers, and let each of his son rule each group.

Luckana brought his followers to prowl in safe place. But Kala brought his followers to dangerous place and lost all of his followers. At last, they came back to see their father.

The father said “Prosperity will happen to the moral and smart. Look at Luckana for an example, he still have a lot of followers. Who is unmoral and dull will not prosper. Look at Kala for an example, he lost all of his followers.”

Luckana finally reincarnated as Saributra, a famous Buddhist saint. Kala finally reincarnated as Devadatta. The father finally reincarnated as the Buddha.

Suddenly, the hunter threw a spear to them. The female hog deer jumped away. But the male hog deer couldn’t escape and was impaled by the spear.

A tree god saw all the story, so he blamed the male hog “You are dead because of a woman. This death is caused by neither your father nor your mother. It’s totally because of a woman.”

The tree god continued “Suffering in this life and next lives mostly because of a woman. Which country has a woman as a leader, such country should be blamed. Killing animals is a formidable thing. Leading by woman is a formidable thing. Being controlled by a woman is also a formidable thing. There are three formidable things in this world.”

The male hog deer finally reincarnated as a monk. The tree god finally reincarnated as the Buddha.