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B

Bag with an opening at both ends full of grains

Bait

Baited hook

Bamboo when it bears fruit

Banana plant

Bath attendant

Beautiful beryl gem

Beautifully designed royal chariots wearing out

Beauty queen

Bird freed from the net

Black and white oxes joined by a single tether

Blazing iron ball

Blind people and the elephant

Blind turtle

Body

Bond

Bonfire

Border city

Brazen as a crow

Bronze bowl brought from a shop or a smithy

Bronze cup of beverage mixed with poison

Brooding like old herons in a pond depleted of fish

Building with a peaked roof

Bull elephants

Buried treasure

Burning torch thrown into a dry grass pile

C

Calf suckling its mother

Carnivorous fish

Cat

Catskin bag

Central square

Chariot yoked to thoroughbred horses

Chariot yoked with thoroughbred horses

Charioteer

Charred log

Child on mother’s breast

City

City built of bones and plastered with flesh and blood

Clay balls

Clay pot

Clay pots

Clear lake

Clothes on fire

Cloud that rains everywhere

Cloud that rains in a certain area

Cluster of mangoes cut off at the stalk

Concealed weapon

Cook

Cow horn for milk

Cow udder for milk

Cow with a young calf

Cowherd

Cowherd counting others’ cows

Cowherd driving the cows to the pasture with a stick

Cowherd guarding his cows

Cow’s footprint

Cracked drum

Crafty gambler concealing a losing throw

Heavy lump of rock thrown into wet clay

Seven lumps of clay

F

Farmer plowing with a large plow

Fine cloth

Fine dust thrown against the wind

Fingernail

Fire

Fire hidden beneath ashes

Fish in the mouth of a trap

Fish tossed on dry land

Fisherman

Fishermen making a haul of fish

Flame flung by wind

Flare up a fire

Fletcher straightening arrow

Flood

Foam

Foliage in jeta’s grove

Four nutriments

Four-sided pond enclosed by embankments

Fragrance of flowers

Fragrance of jasmine

Fragrant powder

G

Ganges

Ganges river

Garland of flowers

Gatekeeper

Glow of fire struck by an iron hammer

Glowworm vs radiant sun

Gluttony

Gold coin

Gold from the jambu river

Gold purification

Gold with impurities

Golden bowl

Goldsmith

Grass and sticks

Grass sticks branches and leaves

Grass-mover cutting a clump of coarse grass

Great flood

Great flood that sweeps away a sleeping village

Great ocean

M

Deep and clear mountain lake

Himalayan mountains

Magic trick

Make an island

Man afflicted with leprosy scorching himself over burning embers

Man born blind from birth

Merchant going for a trade

Merchant restraining his thoroughbred horse

Milk a cow

Mirage

Monkey swinging from branch to branch

Moon

Moon following the path of the zodiac

Moon freed from clouds

Moonlight surpassing twinkling of all the stars

Morning star shining brightly in the last watch of the night

Mount sineru

Mountain

Mountain peak

Mountain river flowing with a swift current

Mountain rock unshaken by wind

Mouse

Murky lake

Mustard seed

Māluvā creeper

One stuck in mud

P

Painter

Parts of a chariot

Path to rājagaha

Pebble in child’s mouth

Perpetually ablaze world

Person covered from head to toe with a white cloth

Person taking a loan to invest in a business

Person traveling with wealth and possessions through a dangerous path

Person who is a slave

Person who is imprisoned

Pierced by a dart

Poison the ocean with a jar of venom

Poisoned arrow

Pond

Poor man with a dilapidated cottage

Potter’s furnace

Potter’s pots

Pure and bright cloth

Pure honey free of wax

Q

Quail tethered by a stinking creeper

R

Radiance of a burning oil lamp

Radiant gods nourished by joy

Raft

Raft sinking in the ocean

Rainfall clearing away dust

Rainless cloud

Recalling journeying through villages

Red sandalwood

Reed being cut down

Reed destroyed by its own fruit

Reed drawn from sheath

Reed in a stream

Reflection in a mirror

Regional kings

Relatives welcoming a dear one home

Rich householder

Ripe fruits

Ripe palm fruit falling from its stalk

Rising sun dispelling the darkness

River crossing

River’s current

Rope

Rotten fish

Row of blind men

Rubbing together of two pieces of wood

Rust corroding the very metal from which it arose

S

Sand for oil

Saw

Seamstress

Seed

Serpent casting off its old worn-out skin

Sesame seeds for oil

Seven pebbles

Seven relay chariots

Sharp-bladed spear

Shines like the sun

Ship

Silver bowl

Sineru

Six animals

Skilled butcher sitting at a crossroads

Skilled goldsmith

Skilled ivory worker

Skilled potter

Skin

Smith purifying silver

Smith removing flaws of the silver

Snake pulled from slough

Sound of conch shell

Sound of kettledrum

Spider in its self-spun web

Spike of rice or barley

Stick

Stream

Stretching with a hundred pegs

Strong conch blower

Strong post or pillar

Sun and shade

Sun dispelling all the darkness spread across the sky

Sunbeam

Sword drawn from scabbard

T

Banana tree

Creeping vine that strangles a sal tree

Cutting out heartwood of a large tree

Four kinds of tree

Great tree

Grove of sāla trees

Kiṁsuka tree

Searching for flowers on a fig tree

Taste of soup

Thicket of thorns

Thieves and burglars

Thorn

Thorny-stemmed lotus

Thoroughbred colt

Thunderbolt

Trapped hare

Tree

Tree with branches and leaves

Tree without branches and leaves

Turbulent winds high in the sky

Turner

Turtle struck with a harpoon

Tusker in the woods

Two houses with doors

Two tameable elephants

Wind overpowering a weak tree

U

Uprooting one’s own foundation

W

Boulder in water

Dried-out wood lying on firm ground far from water

Drops of water

Fish in a dwindling stream of little water

Ghee in water

Irrigators direct the water

Lake with spring water welling up from below

Lotus rising above the water

Lotus suffused from its tip to its root with cool water

Milk and water

Wardrobe of variously colored clothes

Watchman and an ox

Water

Water at the confluence

Water bubble

Water drops from a lotus leaf

Water filling into a broken boat

Water for churning butter

Water jar filled to the brim

Water snake

Waves

Wet sappy wood

Wet sappy wood lying in water

Wet sappy wood lying on firm ground far from water

Wheel-turning monarch

Whip

Whirlpools

Wild elephant

Withered leaf

Woman

Wooden pillows

Woodland grove with a blossoming crest

Wooly goat