The next birth is not good. Don’t be intoxicated or heedless, For the heedless are not happily reborn. Only do those things That take you to a good destination.” Nāḷāgiri sucked the dust from the Buddha’s feet with his trunk and scattered it overhead. He then walked backward while looking at the Buddha, and returned to his stall in the elephant stables. That is how tame Nāḷāgiri had become. On that occasion people chanted this verse: “Some are tamed with sticks,