In the canon
The Monkey and the Crocodile
Unknown
- Form
- Form Short Story
- Year
- Year 300 BCE
- Originally in
- Originally in Sanskrit
- Pages
- Pages 4
A monkey befriends a crocodile who ferries him across a river to eat fruit, until the crocodile's wife demands his heart as a delicacy. Midstream the monkey claims he left his heart in the tree, and talks his way back to shore.
For then I might have brought with me another heart, very sweet indeed, which I keep in a hole in the rose-apple tree.
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