In English
read and explained the traditional legend connected with ; the legend is but a vehicle to teach you the path of righteousness (). The deer beseech the hunter not to kill them, promising to return later when they could be killed and telling him that if they break their word they know they would incur the penalty for many a heinous sin - the story is only to propagate the principles of . Every story illustrates a moral, and this story of the greatness of is no exception. When it comes to describing the merits of , even animals become eloquent - their speech is veritably the voice of God. They are not deer, they are the tongues of the Lord. The deer, one after another, declare that they will come back to be killed; each one has to go because it has some dear one to tend or feed or obey. They then say that truth is their vow, and they dare not break it, for it is indeed a heinous sin to play ‘false’. They say that the sin is equal to a number of other sins they list. The hunter lets them go on their plighted word. He has himself committed the sins they list, and he knows by experience during many births that they are heinous and that they bring about dire tragedy in a remorseless manner. An iron law of cause and effect is operating in this field.