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The flock of geese prospered under their favor, just as the world prospers through a profusion of virtue and wealth. And as a result the lake bore an appearance of great beauty.

The flock of geese roaming

like a floating bed of lotuses,

crooning softly like tinkling anklets,

made the lake look radiant.

As the geese spread out here and there,

clustered in groups of varying size,

the lake took on the beauty of the sky

dappled with pieces of broken cloud.

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Amazed by the power of the exceptional virtue shown by the king of geese and also by his general, who was intent on the welfare of all beings, troops of siddhas,* seers, vidya·dharas and gods delighted in discussing the fame of the two geese:

“Their glorious bodies are like refined gold.

They speak using articulate words.

Their modesty and judgment arise from virtue.

Whatever they are, they are geese only in guise.

Unjealous beings proclaim their virtue,

spreading their fame in every direction

until it roams through assemblies like an offering,

becoming an object of faith for kings.”

At that time a king called Brahma·datta ruled in Varanasi. This monarch had repeatedly heard trustworthy ministers and brahmin elders in his assembly eulogize the exceptional virtues of the royal goose and his general and had ________