Panchatantra Jackal Bowstring

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A greedy jackal finds the body of a hunter and, gnawing at the taut bowstring for the bits of meat upon it, severs it; the freed bow snaps straight and the horn-tip drives through the jackal's skull. Moral: greed that gnaws at a drawn bow is killed by it. — Panchatantra (attrib. Vishnu Sharma)