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Buddhist Birth Stories (Jataka)

Rhys Davids

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1. Page 266. No. 28. NANDI-VISĀLA JĀTAKA. The Bull who Won the Bet. “Speak kindly.”—This the Maste
2. Page 267. “All right! I bet you a thousand he can.” So the bet was made. And he filled a hundre
3. Page 268. When the Brāhman heard what he said, he made the bet two thousand, tied the carts tog
4. Page 270. No. 29. KAṆHA JĀTAKA. The Old Woman’s Black Bull. “Whene’er the load be heavy.”—This
5. Page 271. One day he said to himself, “My mother is wretchedly poor. She’s taken so much pains,
6. Page 272. The caravan owner thought, “He knows, I suppose, that the pay is too little;” and wra
7. Page 275. No. 30. MUṆIKA JĀTAKA. The Ox who Envied the Pig. “Envy not Muṇika.”—This the Master
8. Page 276. And, not long after, those men came there; and they killed ‘Sausages,’ and cooked him
9. Page 278. CHAPTER IV. KULĀVAKAVAGGA.
10. Page 278. No. 31. KULĀVAKA JĀTAKA. On Mercy to Animals. “Let the Nestlings in the wood.”—This t
11. Page 279. Long ago a king of Magadha was reigning in Rājagaha, in the land of Magadha. At that
12. Page 280. Now the village headman said to himself, “I used to have great gain from fines, and t
13. Page 281. The officials asked them, and the Bodisat said there was. And they told the king, and
14. Page 283. “What’s to be done now then?” said they. “You must look about and see if there be suc
15. Page 284. And Sakka said, “What is the good to us of a kingdom shared by others?” And he had am
16. Page 286. “O Lord! as the Silk Cotton Tree Forest falls, torn up by the swiftness of your car,
17. Page 287. And Thoughtful also changed her form of existence, and was reborn as one of his atten
18. Page 288. The people came up and asked for them. “I sell,” said she, “only to those who live a
19. Page 290. And he led her away to the heavenly city, and gave her the post of honour among great
20. Page 291. No. 32. NACCA JĀTAKA. The Dancing Peacock. “Pleasant is your cry.”—This the Master to
21. Page 292. The king sent for his daughter, saying, “Come and choose the husband you like best!”
22. Page 295. No. 33. SAMMODAMĀNA JĀTAKA. The sad Quarrel of the Quails. “So long as the birds but
23. Page 296. To this they all agreed; and the next day, as soon as the net was thrown, they lifted
24. Page 297. And the fowler came a few days after, and imitated the cry of a quail, and cast his n
25. Page 299. No. 34. MACCHA JĀTAKA. The Fish and his Wife. “’Tis not the heat, ‘tis not the cold.”
26. Page 300. “What is this you are saying, sir?” answered the fishermen. “Take away any fish you l
27. Page 302. No. 35. VAṬṬAKA JĀTAKA. The Holy Quail. “Wings I have that will not fly.”—This the Ma
28. Page 303. Then the monks began to magnify the Teacher, saying; “Oh! how marvellous are the qual
29. Page 304. When the Bodisat, lying there as he was, stretched forth his neck, and saw the confla
30. Page 306. Therefore it is said— And as that spot has escaped being overwhelmed by fire through
31. Page 307. No. 36. SAKUṆA JĀTAKA. The Wise Bird and the Fools. “The earth-born tree.”—This the M
32. Page 308. Now one day dust began to fall as the branches of the tree rubbed one against another
33. Page 310. No. 37. TITTIRA JĀTAKA. The Partridge, Monkey, and Elephant. “’Tis those who reverenc
34. Page 311. “Who is it, then, O monks, who deserves the best seat, and the best water, and the be
35. Page 312. And for their further instruction he said: “Formerly, O monks, even animals used to s
36. Page 313. Then again the two others asked the Partridge as before. And he said— “Friends! There
37. Page 314. END OF THE STORY OF THE PARTRIDGE, THE MONKEY, AND THE ELEPHANT.335
38. Page 315. No. 38. BAKA JĀTAKA. The Cruel Crane Outwitted. “The villain though exceeding clever.
39. Page 316. “Sir! there is a monk at Jetavana who, they say, cheats all the world in such and suc
40. Page 317. “I must outwit these fish somehow or other and make a prey of them.” And he went and
41. Page 318. And in that manner he took all the fish, one by one, and ate them, till he came back
42. Page 319. “Ah! those fishes got eaten through their own stupidity,” answered the crab; “but I’m
43. Page 322. No. 39. NANDA JĀTAKA. Nanda on the Buried Gold. “The golden heap, methinks.”—This the
44. Page 323. Very soon after he died; and in due course his son became of age. And his mother said
45. Page 324. Then the young squire took leave of the Bodisat, went home, took Nanda with him to th
46. Page 326. No. 40. KHADIRANGĀRA JĀTAKA. The Fiery Furnace. “Far rather will I fall into this hel
47. Page 327. Now his mansion was seven stories high, and there were seven great gates to it, with
48. Page 328. Another day the Fairy went to the Merchant’s eldest son, and persuaded him in the sam
49. Page 329. Now the Fairy, who before had not cared to speak to the Merchant, thinking, “Now that
50. Page 330. When she heard the words of the converted, saintly disciple, she dared not stay; and
51. Page 331. “It is well, O God. Tell me what that may be!” “People have had eighteen thousands of
52. Page 332. “Who’s there?” said he. “It is I, great Merchant! the blind and foolish Fairy who use
53. Page 333. And at the conclusion of the verses the Fairy was established in the Fruit of Convers
54. Page 334. Now one day when pleasant food of all sweet tastes was being taken in for the Bodisat
55. Page 335. Then thought the Bodisat, “Vasavatti Māra must be exerting himself with the hope of p
56. Page 337. Māra too, sorrowing over his defeat, went away to the place where he dwelt. But the B
57. Page 339. INDEX. The names mentioned in the Tables following the Introduction are not included
58. Page 347. BY THE SAME AUTHOR. 1. THREE INSCRIPTIONS OF PARĀKRAMA BAHU THE Great, from Pulastipu
59. Page 347. TRÜBNER’S ORIENTAL SERIES. Messrs. TRÜBNER & CO. beg to call attention to their ORIEN
60. Page 347. IV. The Zoroastrian Religion, as to its Origin and Development. The Author of these E
61. Page 347. The Author’s principal object in publishing these Essays originally, was to present i
62. Page 347. Translated from the Chinese by S. BEAL, B.A., Professor of Chinese, University Colleg
63. Page 347. “Mr. Beal, by making it accessible in an English dress, has added to the great servic
64. Page 347. Professor Cowell, of Cambridge, writes:—“The English translation of Professor A. Webe
65. Page 347. “The book before us is then valuable contribution to philological science. It passes
66. Page 347. Late Professor of Hindustani, Staff College. In this work an endeavour has been made
67. Page 347. Extract from Preface. There has always been a wish to know something about the sacred
68. Page 347. Hon. LL.D. of the University of Calcutta, Hon. Member of the Bombay Asiatic Society,
69. Page 347. CONTENTS OF VOL. I. Section I.—On the Kocch, Bódó, and Dhimál Tribes.—Part I. Vocabul
70. Page 347. Section XI.—Route from Káthmándú, the Capital of Nepâl, to Darjeeling in Sikim.—Memor
71. Page 347. A TALMUDIC MISCELLANY; Or, A THOUSAND AND ONE EXTRACTS FROM THE TALMUD, THE MIDRASHIM
72. Page 347. FOOTNOTES: 1 James’s ‘Æsop’s Fables’ (London, Murray, 1852), p. 111; La Fontaine, Boo
73. Page 347. 13 In the Vinīla Jātaka (No. 160) they similarly carry a crow to the Himālaya mountai
74. Page 347. 20 The Yakshas, products of witchcraft and cannibalism, are beings of magical power,
75. Page 347. 30 Mahā Bhārata, xii. 4052. See Dr. Muir’s “Metrical Translations from Sanskrit Write
76. Page 347. 40 It was first edited by Pithou, in 1596; also by Orelli, Zürich, 1831. Comp. Oester
77. Page 347. 45 Pope Benedict XIV. in ‘De servorum Dei beatificatione et beatorum canonisatione,’
78. Page 347. 58 No. xlv. p. 80 of Swan and Hooper’s popular edition, 1877; No. xlii. p. 167 of the
79. Page 347. 66 See the list of these Buddhas below, p. 52, where it will be seen that for the las
80. Page 347. 72 Cunningham, ‘The Stupa of Bharhut,’ pl. xlvii. The carving illustrates a fable of
81. Page 347. 96 pp. 99-106. 97 Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 28, 29, 37, 55, 56, 68, 85, 87, 88, 97, 100, 11
82. Page 347. 107 These two Jatakas also form the contents of a separate MS. in the Royal Asiatic S
83. Page 347. 118 Lit. perfected the vast constituents of Buddhahood, the Pāramitās are meant. 119
84. Page 347. 131 What follows from yasmā to nipajji belongs to a later commentary. I resume the tr
85. Page 347. 158 Viz. Gotama Bodhisatta. 159 When a good man is in difficulty, Indra is apprised o
86. Page 347. 172 In the seas surrounding each continent (Mahādīpa) there are five hundred islands.
87. Page 347. 177 The Madurattha Vilāsinī adds the rest, “I am supreme in the world; this is my las
88. Page 347. 185 Anupādisesāya Nibbāna-dhātuyā parinibbāyi. In the translator’s “Buddhism,” p. 113
89. Page 347. 193 Literally, “The three Bhavas seemed like houses on fire.” The three Bhavas are Ex
90. Page 347. 198 Samāpatti. 199 The Great Struggle played a great part in the Buddhist system of m
91. Page 347. 204 Compare the Thirty-two Good Omens at the Buddha’s Birth, above, p. 64. 205 The tr
92. Page 347. 210 The monks whose duty it is to learn by heart, repeat, and commentate upon the sev
93. Page 347. 223 See above p. 89. 224 Upāsakas; that is, those who have taken the Three Refuges an
94. Page 347. 244 That is, I think, between the persons in the story on the one hand, and the Buddh
95. Page 347. 248 The reader will not take this too seriously. The old lady’s scorn turns as easily
96. Page 347. 257 Pronounce Choollacker with the accent on the first syllable. 258 ‘Uluŋka,’ half a
97. Page 347. 265 These lines are not in the printed text. But see the Corrigenda; and Léon Feer, i
98. Page 347. 275 The whole story is given below, in the Nimi Jātaka, Book xii. 276 See the Transla
99. Page 347. 282 This Introductory Story is given also as the occasion on which v. 160 of the Dham
100. Page 347. 292 This amusing Introductory Story will scarcely bear translating. 293 The verse is