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Overview
When King Brahmadatta’s damaged horse gear is blamed on dogs, some dogs are killed and others flee. A dog from another country encourages the refugees to appeal to the king and identify the palace dogs Gaṇḍa and Upagaṇḍa as the real culprits. A test in the story makes the two named dogs bring up leather fragments. The king condemns them and grants safety to the others. The advocate is unnamed, and the text does not identify it as the Bodisat. The administered hair pellet is a narrative investigative device, not recommended animal care.
Origins & earliest records
Indian Buddhist narrative preserved in Tibetan translation
Records & interpretation
Whole chapter and its footnotes directly read in the digitized1906 edition.
Selected bibliography
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Tibetan Tales Derived from Indian Sources
XXXIX, The Guilty Dogs, pp. 342–343; note cites Kah-gyur iv. f. 212
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Tibetan Tales Derived from Indian Sources — XXXIX The Guilty Dogs
Tibetan Tales Derived from Indian Sources, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., 1906, title-page transcription independently checked. Tibetan Kah-gyur to German by F. Anton von Schiefner, then German to English by W.R.S.Ralston. Complete selectedXXIX–XXXIX314–343, including bothXXXIII variants and all notes, independently read. ChapterXXXVIII read as adjacent corpus context without inventing a new profile; source-language originals not collated.
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Primary records and illustrations
Schiefner/Ralston, Tibetan Tales Derived from Indian Sources (London, 1906)
XXXIX, The Guilty Dogs. XXXIX, The Guilty Dogs, pp. 342–343; note cites Kah-gyur iv. f. 212
Whole chapter and notes read. Explicit identities and relations preserved; Bodisat status only where stated. Earlier cited Tibetan canonical witnesses not independently inspected. Original paraphrase of historical translation.
Located primary passages
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Tibetan Tales Derived from Indian Sources
Tibetan Tales Derived from Indian Sources, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., 1906, title-page transcription independently checked. Tibetan Kah-gyur to German by F. Anton von Schiefner, then German to English by W.R.S.Ralston. Complete selectedXXIX–XXXIX314–343, including bothXXXIII variants and all notes, independently read. ChapterXXXVIII read as adjacent corpus context without inventing a new profile; source-language originals not collated.
- Gaṇḍa and Upagaṇḍa gnaw royal horse gear, but indiscriminate punishment kills or drives away other dogs. A visiting dog helps organize an appeal that identifies the privileged suspects. The subsequent test makes those two produce leather fragments. They are sentenced to death and the other dogs are made safe. The visitor’s advocacy does not automatically exonerate every dog without investigation.
XXXIX The Guilty Dogs, complete342–343; note Kah-gyuriv.f212
Historical German-mediated English rendering, not independently collated Tibetan manuscript. Page labels from hosted transcription. Religious/moral assertions remain narrative framing. No verse, ritual, prayer, medical preparation or modern adaptation copied.
References
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- Historical translation of Buddhist narrativeSchiefner/Ralston, Tibetan Tales (1906), XXXIX, The Guilty Dogs, pp. 342–343; note cites Kah-gyur iv. f. 212Research access: 2026-10-05
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