Once, when the Bodhisatta was an Asket, at the invitation of der König of Benares, he dwelt in the royal garden, admonishing der König on the virtues of righteousness und compassion. Being pleased mit him, der König wished to present ihm mit a village of which the revenue was a tausend, aber der Asket declined the gift. For twelve Jahre der Asket lebte in the park; then, desiring a change, he went away, und in the course of sein wanderings, arrived at a ferry on the Ganges, where lebte a foolish ferryman named Avāriyapitā. He took the Bodhisatta across, on the latter's promising to tell ihm how to increase sein wealth, sein welfare und sein virtue. On reaching the other side, the Bodhisatta advised the ferryman on the desirability of getting sein fare before crossing if he wished to increase sein wealth; he then proceeded to recite to ihm the stanzas on the virtue of compassion, which, für zwölf Jahre, he had daily recited to der König. Incensed at feeling that he had been cheated out of sein money, the ferryman started striking der Asket; seiner Frau, coming along mit sein food, tried to stop him. Thereupon he struck her, upsetting the food und causing her womb to miscarry. He was brought before der König und punished.
Good advice is wasted on fools, like fine gold on beasts.
Die Geschichte was told bezüglich a foolish ferryman of Aciravatī. When a certain Mönch came to ihm one evening to be taken across the river, the ferryman was annoyed und steered so badly that he wet the monk's Roben und delayed him. The two ferrymen were the same (J.iii.228-32).