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| | Sn I.3: Khaggavisana Sutta |
 | | Still, some scholars have noted that while the Indian rhinoceros is a solitary animal, rhinoceros horns don't wander, and that in other verses in the Pali canon, the phrase "wander alone like..." takes a person or an animal, not an animal part, for its object. |
 | | Thus, for example, in Dhp 329 (repeated below), one is told to "wander alone like a king renouncing his kingdom, like the elephant in the Matanga woods, his herd." It's possible that the rhinoceros was chosen here as an example of solitary wandering both because of its habits and because of its unusual single horn. |
 | | If you don't gain a mature companion, a fellow traveler, right-living and wise, wander alone like a king renouncing his kingdom, like the elephant in the Matanga wilds, his herd. |
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