This is a cool story about how each friend helps the two hawks protect their young from some men that would eat them. There are 4 friends total. This is easily converted into a buddy story where someone is trying to accomplish something and each friend is needed to contribute something to make it happen.
Golden Dish
Mildenhall Treasure
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This story seems to set up an ongoing feud between Devadatta and Bodisat. In this one they are both merchants. Devadatta tried to swindle a woman out of a golden dish. In the interim though Bodisat came and paid everything he had for the dish then left. Devadatta came back to offer a small payment for the dish and found he had been outmaneuvered and died of a heart attack. This could easily be redone now and days as a double cross thriller script. Change the dish to a cache of arms or corporate espionage…
The sheriff slanders the good people to the king. King orders them to be trampled by elephants, elephants won’t trample them. King hears that they are good people gives them all the sheriffs lands and makes him their slave. Good use of just desserts type justice here. Could easily change this to a story with the Charlotte's Web characters. Make Wilbur be the Bodisat and have the farmer be intent on killing him. Actually this is kinda the Web story already huh?
The antelope is made addicted to honey then lead inside the palace to where he is in danger. He doesn’t realize it until too late. So easily can be made into a drug deal story. I so see this being a drug dealer getting someone hooked on heroin or something.
The King of deer was willing to sacrifice himself to save a doe that was with child. This is a pretty plain and straightforward story.
A brahmin said young in his family didn’t die because they were righteous.
The guy lied about his merits and the garlands that were bestowed on him caused him pain. I feel like this was too easily resolved and the flowers should have been the end of him. Could expand this story and change it thus, I would think they would start choking the lies out of him.
Eastern Stories and Legends
by Marie L. Shedlock
The sheriff slanders the good people to the king. King orders them to be trampled by elephants, elephants won’t trample them. King hears that they are good people gives them all the sheriffs lands and makes him their slave. Good use of just desserts type justice here. Could easily change this to a story with the Charlotte's Web characters. Make Wilbur be the Bodisat and have the farmer be intent on killing him. Actually this is kinda the Web story already huh?
The antelope is made addicted to honey then lead inside the palace to where he is in danger. He doesn’t realize it until too late. So easily can be made into a drug deal story. I so see this being a drug dealer getting someone hooked on heroin or something.
Drug Addict
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The King of deer was willing to sacrifice himself to save a doe that was with child. This is a pretty plain and straightforward story.
A brahmin said young in his family didn’t die because they were righteous.
The Teacher
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The guy lied about his merits and the garlands that were bestowed on him caused him pain. I feel like this was too easily resolved and the flowers should have been the end of him. Could expand this story and change it thus, I would think they would start choking the lies out of him.
Eastern Stories and Legends
by Marie L. Shedlock
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