{"id":"ja44","title":"The Mosquito: a past life story","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"ja44","title":"The Mosquito: a past life story","units":[{"id":"ja44:0","sourceIds":["ja44:0.1","ja44:0.2","ja44:0.3","ja44:0.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Jātaka\nEkakanipāta\nAtthakāmavagga\n4. Makasajātaka","en":"Stories of Past Lives 44\nThe Book of the Ones\nWanting to Help\nThe Mosquito: a past life story"}},{"id":"ja44:1","sourceIds":["ja44:1.1","ja44:1.2","ja44:1.3","ja44:1.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Seyyo amitto matiyā upeto,\nNa tveva mitto mativippahīno;\nMakasaṁ vadhissanti hi eḷamūgo,\nPutto pitu abbhidā uttamaṅgan”ti.","en":"Better is a considerate foe\nthan an inconsiderate friend.\nThinking, “I shall kill the mosquito”,\nthe idiot son split open his father’s head."}},{"id":"ja44:2","sourceIds":["ja44:2.1"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Makasajātakaṁ catutthaṁ."}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/ja44/en/sujato","licence":"CC0 1.0","licenceUrl":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/","editionNote":"Full supplied source file; inherited abbreviations are preserved. Not a reconstructed expansion of every repetition. No Malay or Mandarin translation is implied."}