Week 12 Reading Notes: Part D of Eastern Stories and Legends

 The Poisonous Trees

The Bodhisatta was born and raised into a merchant. He was trading and doing business with five hundred wagons, he led a team through the forest. 

When the team arrived on the outskirts of the forest, he stopped and addressed the others. He told them that the forest contains poisonous trees. He commanded them to consult him before eating anything in the forest. 

A what-fruit tree grows inside the forest, outside of a village. This tree grows fruits that resemble a mango. Every single thing about the fruit growing from the tree and the tree itself resembles a mango tree. Even the taste and smell of the fruit resemble that of a mango. Although, if the what fruit from the tree is eaten, it is instant death. 

The team going through the forest also had some greedy fellows. These greedy fellows went ahead of the caravan. These greedy fellows encountered this what fruit tree. Some ate the fruit and some waited to consult with the leader over safety measures of the tree. 

As soon as the leader caught up to them, he told them not to eat the fruit and what the tree actually is. When the leader found out a few of them already ate the fruit, he dosed them with an emetic and then he gave them four sweet foods to eat. They recovered. 

On the other side of this story, villagers lived by this what fruit tree. They knew people traveling through the forest would eat its fruit. They would come up the next day in the morning and dispatch of the bodies and keep their goods from their caravans. 

This time, the villagers came to the fruit tree expecting to see many dead bodies and a large caravan ready to be assessed. However, this leader was smarter than most that travel through the forest. 

They disappointedly asked the leader of the caravan how he knew that this was not a mango tree. 

The leader responded by saying "two things told me" and he repeated this stanza... 

When near a village grows a tree
Not hard to climb, 'tis plain to me,
Nor need I further proof to know,
No wholesome fruit thereon can grow!

and he continued his journey. 


A mango tree that resembles a fruit-tree!

Bibliography: Eastern Stories and Legends by Marie L. Shedlock

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