46 The Folly of the Monkeys


high-definition creative commons posters depicting The Folly of the Monkeys from the Pāḷi Jātaka stories together with further information.

In Benares, during a festive holiday, a gardener asks resident monkeys to water the king’s pleasure gardens. The monkey king, wishing to conserve water, instructs his tribe to uproot every young tree to inspect its roots, watering them according to their size. A wise man observes this destruction, noting that the ignorant, despite good intentions, cause only harm. He concludes that the unintelligent always ruins what is good and beneficial.

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