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The Bodhisatta, the clever king of the monkeys
"လိမၼာပါးနပ္ေသာ ဘုရားေလာင္းေမ်ာက္မင္း"

In past times, there was a thick forest on a certain spot. And in the lake there dwelt a water-ogre who used to devour everyone who went down into the water. In those days the Bodhisatta had come to life as the king of the monkeys, and was as big as the fawn of a deer ; he lived in that forest at the head of a troop of no less than eighty thousand monkeys whom he shielded from harm.

ေရွးအခါက ေဒသတစ္ခုတြင္ ေတာအုပ္တစ္အုပ္ရွိခဲ့၏။ ထိုေတာအုပ္ရွိ ေရကန္ထဲတြင္ ေရဘီလူးတစ္ေကာင္ ရွိခဲ့သည္။ သူသည္ ေရထဲဆင္းလာသမွ် သတၱဝါတိုင္းကို စားေသာက္ေလ့ရွိ၏။ ထိုအခ်ိန္က ဘုရားေလာင္းသည္ ေမ်ာက္မင္းဘဝသို႔ ေရာက္ရွိေနခဲ့သည္။ ေမ်ာက္မင္းသည္ သမင္ေပါက္တစ္ေကာင္၏ အရြယ္အစားပမာဏခန္႔ ကိုယ္ခႏၶာၾကီးမား၏။ ယင္းသည္ အေကာင္ေရ ရွစ္ေသာင္းေက်ာ္ရွိေသာ ေမ်ာက္အုပ္စု၏ အၾကီးအကဲအျဖစ္ ထိုေမ်ာက္အေပါင္းကို အႏၲရာယ္မွ အကာအကြယ္ေပးကာ ထိုေတာထဲတြင္ ေနထိုင္ခဲ့သည္။

Thus one day he did counsel his subjects;—''My friends, in this forest there are trees that are poisonous and lakes that are haunted by ogres. Mind to ask me first before you either eat any fruit which you have not eaten before, or drink of any water where you have not drunk before." "Certainly," said they readily.

ဤသို႔ေနလာရင္း တစ္ေန႔တြင္ ေမ်ာက္မင္းက ကိစၥတစ္ရပ္ကို အၾကံျပဳ၏ "မိတ္ေဆြတို႔ ဒီေတာ္ထဲမွာ အစိပ္ရွိတဲ့ အပင္ေတြရွိတယ္။ ဘီလူးေတြ ဖမ္းစားတဲ့ ေရကန္ေတြရွိတယ္။ မစားဘူးတဲ့သစ္သီးကို စားမယ္၊ မေသာက္ဘူးတဲ့ေနရာက ေရကို ေသာက္မယ္ဆိုရင္ ကၽြန္ႏ္ုပ္ကို ေမးဖို႔ သတိရပါ"။ ေမ်ာက္ေတြက "ဟုတ္ကဲ့ပါ" ဟု မဆိုင္းမတြ ျပန္ေျပာၾကသည္။

One day they came to a spot they had never visited before. As they were searching for water to drink after their day's wanderings, they came on this lake. But they did not drink ; on the contrary they sat down watching for the coming of the Bodhisatta.

တစ္ေန႔ ယခင္ ယင္းတို႔မေရာက္ဘူးေသာ ေနရာသို႔ ေရာက္လာခဲ့ၾက၏။ တစ္ေနကုန္ လွည့္လည္သြားလာျပီးေနာက္ ေသာက္ေရရွာေဖြရင္း ထိုေရကန္သို႔ ေရာက္လာခဲ့သည္။ ယင္းတို႔သည္ ေရမေသာက္ၾကဘဲ ဘုရားေလာင္းအလာကို ေစာင့္ေနရင္း ထိုင္ေနခဲ့ၾကသည္။

When he came up, he said, " Well, my friends, why don't you drink ?
" We waited for you to come."
" Quite right, my friends," said the Bodhisatta. Then he made a circuit of the lake, and scrutinized the footprints round, with the result that he found that all the footsteps led down into the water and none came up again.

ဘုရားေလာင္းေရာက္လာေသာအခါ သူက "ေအာ္ မိတ္ေဆြတို႔ကလည္း ဘာျဖစ္လို႔ ေရမေသာက္ၾကတာလဲ" ဟု ေျပာဆို၏။
"ကၽြန္ေတာ္တို႔ ခင္မ်ားအလာကို ေစာင့္ေနၾကတာပါ"
"ေစာင့္ေနတာ သိပ္မွန္တာေပါ့ မိတ္ေဆြတို႔" ဟု ဘုရားေလာင္ကေျပာဆိုျပီး ေရကန္ကို ပတ္ေလွ်ာက္ျပီး ပတ္ပတ္လည္မွ ေျခရာမ်ားကို ေစ့ေစ့စပ္စပ္ ၾကည့္႐ႈစစ္ေဆးလိုက္သည္။ စစ္ေဆးခ်က္အရ ေရထဲဆင္းသြားေသာ ေျခရာမ်ားသာရွိျပီး ျပန္တက္လာေသာ ေျခရာမ်ားမရွိေၾကာင္း ေတြ႔လိုက္ရသည္။

"Without doubt," thought he to himself, "this is the haunt of an ogre." So he said to his followers, "You are quite right, my friends, in not drinking of this water ; for the lake is haunted by an ogre."

"ဒါ ဘီလူး ညႇဳိ႕ယူဖမ္းစားထားတာဘဲ၊ သံသယျဖစ္စရာကို မလိုဘူး" ဟု တစ္ကိုယ္တည္းေတြးေတာကာ ေနာက္လိုက္မ်ားကို "သင္တို႔ ေရမေသာက္ဘဲ ေစာင့္ေနတာ လံုးဝ မွန္သြားတယ္ မိတ္ေဆြတို႔။ ဒီေရကန္က ဘီလူးဖမ္းစားတယ္" ဟု ေျပာလိုက္သည္။

When the water-ogre realised that they were not entering his domain, he assumed the shape of a horrible monster with a blue belly, a white face, and bright- red hands and feet ; in this shape he came out from the water, and said, "Why are you seated here"? Go down into the lake and drink."

ေရဘီလူးသည္ ယင္း၏ ပိုင္းနက္ထဲသို႔ ေမ်ာက္မ်ားဝင္မလာေၾကာင္း သိရွိသြားျပီး ဝမ္းဗိုက္ျပာျပာ မ်က္ႏွာျဖဴျဖဴ ေျခလက္ နီရဲရဲႏွင့္ ေၾကာက္မက္ဖြယ္ရာ ဘီလူးအသြင္ ဖန္ဆင္းလိုက္၏။ ထိုအသြင္ျဖင့္ ေရထဲကတြက္လာျပီး "သင္တို႔ ဘာျဖစ္လို႔ ဒီမွာထိုင္ေနၾကတာလဲ။ ေရကန္ထဲဆင္းျပီး ေရေသာက္ၾကပါအံုး" ဟု ေျပာဆို၏။

But the Bodhisatta said to him, "Are not you the ogre of this water '? "
"Yes, I am," was the answer.
"Do you take as your prey all those who go down into this water?"
"Yes, I do; from small birds upwards, I never let anything go which comes down into my water. I will eat the lot of you too."
" But we shall not let you eat us."
" Just drink the water."
" Yes, we will diink the water, and yet not fall into your power."

ဘုရားေလာင္းက "သင္ဟာ ေရဘီလူးမဟုတ္လား" ဟု ေမးလိုက္၏။
"ဟုတ္ပါတယ္" ဟု ဘီလူက ေျဖဆို၏။
"ဒီေရထဲ ဆင္းတဲ့သတၱဝါအားလံုးကို သင့္ရဲ႕ သားေကာင္အျဖစ္ ဖမ္းယူသလား"။
"ဟုတ္တယ္။ ငွက္ေကာင္ေလးေတြကစျပီး ေရထဲဆင္းလာသမွ် ဘယ္လိုသတၱဝါကိုမွ အလြတ္မေပးဘူး။ မင့္တို႔ အမ်ားၾကီးကိုလည္း ငါစားမယ္"။
"ငါတို႔ မင္းစားတာကို မခံဘူး"။
"ေရေတာ့ ေသာက္ၾကပါ"။
"ေရေသာက္မယ္၊ ဒါေပမယ့္ သင့္ရဲ႕ သားေကာင္းအျဖစ္ေတာ့ အေရာက္မခံဘူး"။

"How do you propose to drink the water, then?"
"Ah, you think we shall have to go down into the water to drink ; whereas we shall not enter the water at all, but the whole eighty thousand of us will take a cane each and drink therewith from your lake as easily as we could through the hollow stalk of a lotus.
And so you will not be able to eat us."

"ဒါဆိုရင္ သင္က ေရကို ဘယ္လိုေသာက္မယ္ ၾကံရြယ္သလဲ"။
"သင္က ငါတို႔ ေရထဲဆင္းပီး ေသာက္မယ္လို႔ထင္ထားတယ္။ ငါတို႔ကေတာ့ လံုးဝ ေရထဲမဆင္းဘူး။ ၾကာရိုးအေခါင္းကေန အလြယ္တကူေရေသာက္လို႔ရသလို တို႔အေကာင္ရွစ္ေသာင္းလံုး ၾကိမ္ဝါးကိုသံုးျပီး အဲဒါနဲ႔ သင့္ေရကန္ထဲက ေရကို ေသာက္မယ္။ အဲဒါဆိုရင္ သင္ ငါတို႔ကို မစားႏိုင္ေတာ့ဘူး"။

So saying, the Bodhisatta had a cane brought to him. Then, calling to mind the Ten Perfections displayed by him, he recited them in a solemn asseveration', and blew down the cane. Straight way the cane became hollow throughout, without a single knot being left in all its length.

ထိုသို႔ေျပာဆိုျပီး ဘုရားေလာင္က ၾကိမ္ယူလာခိုင္းလိုက္၏။ ဒီေနာက္ ယင္းျဖည့္ဆည္းပူးထားေသာ ပါရမီဆယ္ပါးကို စိတ္ထဲမွ ေအာင့္ေမ့လိုက္ျပီး အေလးအနက္အဓိ႒ာန္ျပဳကာ ရြတ္ဆို၏။ ဒီေနာက္ ၾကိမ္ကို မႈတ္လိုက္၏။ ၾကိမ္သည္ အဆစ္တစ္ခုမွ်က်န္ဘဲ အရွည္ရွိသေလာက္ ေတာက္ေလွ်ာက္ အေခါင္းေပါက္ျဖစ္သြားေလသည္။

In this fashion he had another and another brought and blew down them. Next the Bodhisatta made the tour of the lake, and vowed, saying, "Let all canes here become hollow throughout." And thenceforth every single cane that grew round that lake became hollow throughout.

ဤပံုအတိုင္း အျခားၾကိမ္မ်ားကိုလည္း တစ္ခုျပီးတစ္ခု ယူကာ မႈတ္ေလ၏။ ဒီေနာက္ ဘုရားေလာင္းသည္ ေရကန္ကို လွည့္ပတ္ျပီး "ဒီမွာရွိတဲ့ ၾကိမ္အားလံုး အေခါင္းေပါက္ျဖစ္ပါေစ" ဟု ေျပာဆိုလ်က္ အဓိ႒ာန္ျပဳလိုက္သည္။ ထိုအခါ ေရကန္တစ္ဝိုက္တြင္ ေပါက္ေနေသာ ၾကိမ္အားလံုးသည္ အေခါင္းမ်ားျဖစ္သြား၏။

After making this vow, the Bodhisatta seated himself with a cane in his hands. All the other eighty thousand monkeys too seated tliemselves round the lake, each with a cane in his hands. And at the same moment when the Bodhisatta sucked the water up through his cane, they all drank too in the same manner, as they sat on the bank.

ဘုရားေလာင္းသည္ အဓိ႒ာန္ျပဳျပီးေနာက္ ၾကိမ္တစ္ေခ်ာင္းကိုကိုင္ကာ ေနရာယူလိုက္၏။ အျခား ေမ်ာက္ရွစ္ေသာင္းလံုးကလည္း လက္ထဲတြင္ ၾကိမ္လံုးမ်ားကိုင္ကာ ေရကန္ကို ပတ္လွ်က္ ေနရာယူၾက၏။
ဘုရားေလာင္းက ၾကိမ္ႏွင့္ ေရေသာက္သည္ႏွင့္တျပိဳင္နက္ ကန္ေဘာင္ေပၚထိုင္ေနေသာ ယင္းတို႔အားလံုးလည္း ထိုနည္းအတိုင္းလိုက္ျပီး ေရေသာက္ၾက၏။

This was the way they drank, and not one of them could the water-ogre get ; so he went off in a rage to his own habitation. The Bodhisatta, too, with his following went back into the forest.

ဤနည္းျဖင့္ ေရေသာက္ၾကရာ ယင္းတို႔အထဲမွ ေမ်ာက္တစ္ေကာင္ကိုမွ် ေရဘီလူးက ဖမ္းစားႏိုင္ျခင္း မရွိေတာ့ေပ။ ထို႔ေၾကာင့္ ေရဘီလူးသည္ ေဒါသူပုန္ထလွ်က္ သူ႔ေနရာသူ ျပန္သြားေတာ့၏။ ဘုရားေလာင္းသည္လည္း ေနာက္လိုက္ေမ်ာက္မ်ားႏွင့္အတူ ေတာတြင္းသို႔ ျပန္လာခဲ့ေတာ့သည္။
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