Donkey

God has let go to waste all the letters I gathered — among the donkeys and the sheep and the cattle You would say, if they keep silent, “the eagle”;

O you who put on clothes and swagger in them — with the swagger of kings over certain poor men The saddlecloth never altered the natures of donkeys, nor — the embroidery of packsaddles the natures of nags

if happiness were to be found only in eating, drinking and intercourse, the donkey would be happier in its state than the angels brought near — and no one says that but a donkey.

and when he looked at him he said to his servant, ‘Take this donkey out.

or one who sees a slaughtered murdered man and a donkey-driver with a rod in his hand and judges him to have slaughtered him, merely because the rod may be an instrument of killing.

And that is as when we know that the genus of the horse neighs by nature, and after search and scrutiny we have found that this attribute is confined to this species and is not found in any other;

But a student who has broken his vow of chastity should, at a crossroads, sacrifice a one-eyed donkey to Nirriti at night, by the rule of the `pākayajña`.

When this sin has been committed, having put on the skin of a donkey, he should beg for alms at seven houses, proclaiming his own deed.

and having killed a donkey, a one-year-old calf.