Reading Notes: Twenty Jataka Tales, Part B

The Great Elephant

A beautiful elephant standing before the sunset. Source: Pixabay

• A beautiful and lonely elephant in the desert lived in the desert
• He heard voices and went toward the sound, and found men dehydrated and hungry
• the elephant wanted to help these people and told them if they wanted to make it to the next city, there will be an elephant to eat and a stream of water to drink from at a certain location
• the elephant sprinted off really fast
• when the people arrived at the location, they saw the body of an elephant; and realized that it was their friend who was helping them
• the elephant sacrificed his body for these men to eat; performed an act of selflessness
• the men did not want to eat their friend but they did through tears anyways because they did not want his sacrifice to go to waste.
• they drank from the river and ate the elephant's body to gain enough strength to make it to the next city
• Use this information to create a story, adding a twist to the end where the elephant is actually alive because I hate it when animals/people die in a story

Bibliography:

Inayat, Noor. Twenty Jataka Tales. Source.