Khuddaka Nikāya — The Minor Collection – page 16
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Tha Ap 138: Campakapupphiya
Ja 139: Ubhatobhattha Jātaka
“His blinding and her beating.”—This story the Master told while at the Bamboo Grove, about Devadatta. We hear that the Brethren, meeting together in the Hall of Truth, spoke one with another, saying that even as a torch from a pyre, charred at both ends and bedunged in the middle, does not serve as wood either in forest-tree or village-hearth, so Devadatta by giving up the world to follow this saving faith had only achieved a twofold shortcoming and failure, seeing that he had missed the comforts of a-lay life yet had fallen short of his vocation as a Brother.
Tha Ap 139: Atthasandassaka
Ja 140: Kaka Jātaka
“In ceaseless dread.”—This story was told by the Master while at Jetavana, about a sagacious counsellor. The incidents will be related in the twelfth book in connection with the Bhaddasala-jataka.
Tha Ap 140: Ekapasādaniya
Ja 141: Godha Jātaka
“Bad company.”—This story was told by the Master while at the Bamboo-grove, about a traitorous Brother. The introductory incident is the same as that told in the Mahila-mukha jataka.
Tha Ap 141: Sālapupphadāyaka
Ja 142: Sigala Jātaka
“Thy tightening grip.”—This story was told by the Master while at the Bamboo-grove, about Devadatta’s going about to kill him. For, hearing the Brethren talking together as to this in the Hall of Truth, the Master said that, as Devadatta acted now, so he acted in times gone by, yet failed—to his own grievous hurt—of his wicked purpose. And so saying, he told this story of the past.
Tha Ap 142: Piyālaphaladāyaka
Ja 143: Virocana Jātaka
“Your mangled corpse.”—This story was told by the Master while at the Bamboo-grove, about Devadatta’s efforts to pose as a Buddha at Gayasisa.
Tha Ap 143: Adhicchattiya
Ja 144: Nanguttha Jātaka
“Vile Jataveda.”—This story was told by the Master while at Jetavana, touching the false austerity of the Ajivikas, or naked ascetics.
Tha Ap 144: Thambāropaka
Ja 145: Radha Jātaka
“How many more?”—This story was told by the Master while at Jetavana, about hankering after the wife of one’s mundane life. The incidents of the introductory story will be told in the Indriya-jataka.
Tha Ap 145: Vedikāraka
Ja 146: Kaka Jātaka
“Our throats are tired.”—This story was told by the Master while at Jetavana, about a number of aged Brethren. Whilst they were still of the world, they were rich and wealthy squires of Savatthi, all friends of one another; and tradition tells us that while they were engaged in good works they heard the Master preach. At once they cried, “We are old; what to us are house and home? Let us join the Brotherhood, and following the Buddha’s lovely doctrine make an end of sorrow.”
Tha Ap 146: Saparivāriya
Dhp 146–156: 11. Old Age
Ja 147: Puppharatta Jātaka
“I count it not as pain.”—This story was told by the Master while at Jetavana, about a Brother who was passion-tost. Being questioned by the Master, he admitted his frailty, explaining that he longed for the wife of his mundane life, “For, oh sir!” said he, “she is so sweet a woman that I cannot live without her.”
Tha Ap 147: Ummāpupphiya
Ja 148: Sigala Jātaka
“Once bitten, twice shy.”—This story was told by the Master when at Jetavana, about subduing desires.
Tha Ap 148: Anulepadāyaka
Ja 149: Ekapanna Jātaka
“If poison lurk.”—This story was told about the Licchavi Prince Wicked of Vesali by the Master when he was living in the gabled house in the great forest near Vesali.
Tha Ap 149: Maggadāyaka
Ja 150: Sanjiva Jātaka
“Befriend a villain.”—This story was told by the Master when at the Bamboo-grove, about King Ajatasattu’s adherence to false teachers. For he believed in that rancorous foe of the Buddhas, the base and wicked Devadatta, and in his infatuation, wishing to do honour to Devadatta, expended a vast sum in erecting a monastery at Gayasisa. And following Devadatta’s wicked counsels, he slew the good and virtuous old King his father, who had entered on the Paths, thereby destroying his own chance of winning like goodness and virtue, and bringing great woe upon himself.
Tha Ap 150: Phalakadāyaka
Ja 151: Rajovada Jātaka
“Rough to the rough”—This story the Master told whilst he was living in Jetavana, to explain how a king was taught a lesson.
Tha Ap 151: Vaṭaṁsakiya
Ja 152: Sigala Jātaka
“Who rashly undertakes”—This story the Master told while staying in his gabled chamber, about a barber who lived at Vesali.
Tha Ap 152: Pallaṅkadāyaka
Ja 153: Sukara Jātaka
“You are a fourfoot”—This is a story told by the Master while at Jetavana, about a certain Elder well stricken in years.
Tha Ap 153: Bandhujīvaka
Ja 154: Uraga Jātaka
“Concealed within a stone”—This story the Master told at Jetavana, about a soldiers’ quarrel.
Tha Ap 154: Tambapupphiya
Ja 155: Gagga Jātaka
“Gagga, live an hundred years”—This story the Master told when he was staying in the monastery made by King Pasenadi in front of Jetavana; it was about a sneeze which he gave.
Tha Ap 155: Vīthisammajjaka
Ja 156: Alinacitta Jātaka
“Prince Winheart once upon a time”—This story the Master told at Jetavana, about a fainthearted Brother. The circumstances will be set forth in the Samvara Birth in the eleventh Book. When the Master asked this Brother if he really were fainthearted, as was said, he replied, “Yes, Blessed One.” To which the Master said, “What, Brother! in former days did you not gain supremacy over the kingdom of Benares, twelve leagues either way, and give it to a baby boy, like a lump of flesh and nothing more, and all this just by perseverance! And now that you have embraced this great salvation, are you to lose heart and faint?” And he told a story of olden days.
Tha Ap 156: Kakkārupūjaka
Ja 157: Guna Jātaka
“The strong will always have their way”—This was told by the Master whilst at Jetavana how Elder Amanda received a present of a thousand robes. The Elder had been preaching to the ladies of the king of Kosala’s palace as described above in the Mahasara Birth.
Tha Ap 157: Mandāravapūjaka
Dhp 157–166: 12. The Self
Ja 158: Suhanu Jātaka
“Birds of a feather”—This story the Master told whilst at Jetavana, about two hot-tempered Brothers.
Tha Ap 158: Kadambapupphiya
Ja 159: The Peacock
“There he rises, king all-seeing,” etc.
Tha Ap 159: Tiṇasulaka
Ja 160: Vinilaka Jātaka
“As yonder king goes galloping”—This story the Master told during a sojourn in Veluvana, how Devadatta imitated the Buddha.
Tha Ap 160: Nāgapupphiya
Ja 161: Indasamanagotta Jātaka
“Friendship with evil”—This is a story told by the Master while at Jetavana, about a headstrong person; and the circumstances will be found in the Vulture Birth, of the Ninth Book. The Master said to this Brother—“In olden days, as now, you were trampled to death by a mad elephant because you were so headstrong and careless of wise men’s advice.” And he told the old story.
Tha Ap 161: Punnāgapupphiya
Ja 162: Santhava Jātaka
“Nothing is worse”—This story the Master told while dwelling at Jetavana,. about feeding the sacred fire. The circumstances are the same as those of the Nanguttha Birth related above.
Tha Ap 162: Kumudadāyaka
Ja 163: Susima Jātaka
“Five score black elephants”—This story the Master told at Jetavana, about arbitrary giving of alms.
Tha Ap 163: Supāricariya
Ja 164: Gijjha Jātaka
“A vulture sees a corpse”—This story the Master told about a Brother who had his mother to support. The circumstances will be related under the Sama Birth.
Tha Ap 164: Kaṇaverapupphiya
Ja 165: Nakula Jātaka
“Creature, your egg-born enemy”—This story the Master told during a sojourn at Jetavana, about two officers who had a quarrel. The circumstances have been given above in the Uraga Birth.
Tha Ap 165: Khajjakadāyaka
Ja 166: Upasalha Jātaka
“Fourteen thousand Upasalhas”—This story the Master told whilst at Jetavana, about a brahmin named Upasalha, who was fastidious in the matter of cemeteries.
Tha Ap 166: Desapūjaka
Ja 167: Samiddhi Jātaka
“Begging Brother, do you know”—This story was told by the Master whilst he was staying in Tapoda Park near Rajagaha, about Elder Samiddhi, or Goodluck.
Tha Ap 167: Kaṇikāracchadaniya
Dhp 167–178: 13. The World
Ja 168: Sakunagghi Jātaka
“A Quail was in his.feeding-ground”—This story the Master told at Jetavana, about his meaning in the Bird Preaching.
Tha Ap 168: Sappidāyaka
Ja 169: Araka Jātaka
“The heart that boundless pity feels”—This story the Master told at Jetavana, about the Scripture on Lovingkindness.
Tha Ap 169: Yūthikapupphiya
Ja 170: Kakantaka Jātaka
This Kakantaka Birth will be given below in the Maha-Ummagga Birth.
Tha Ap 170: Dussadāyaka
Ja 171: Kalyana-Dhamma Jātaka
“O king, when people hail us”—This story the Master told in Jetavana, about a deaf mother-in-law.
Tha Ap 171: Samādapaka
Ja 172: Daddara Jātaka
“Who is it with a mighty cry, etc.”—This is a story which the Master told at Jetavana about one Kokalika.
Tha Ap 172: Pañcaṅguliya
Ja 173: Makkata Jātaka
“Father, see! a poor old fellow”—This story the Master told whilst staying in Jetavana, about a rogue. The circumstances will be explained in the Uddala Birth, Book xiv.
Tha Ap 173: Kumudamāliya
Ja 174: Dubhiya-Makkata Jātaka
“Plenty of water”—This story the Master told in his sojourn at Veluvana, about Devadatta. One day it happened that the Brethren were talking in the Hall of Truth about Devadatta’s ingratitude and treachery to his friends, when the Master broke in, “Not this once only, Brethren, has Devadatta been ungrateful and treacherous to his own friends. He was just the same before.” Then he told them an old story.
Tha Ap 174: Nisseṇidāyaka
Ja 175: Adiccupatthana Jātaka
“There is no tribe”—This is a story told by the Master in Jetavana, about a rogue.
Tha Ap 175: Rattipupphiya
Ja 176: Kalaya-Mutthi Jātaka
“A foolish monkey”—This story the Master told at Jetavana, about a king of Kosala.
Tha Ap 176: Udapānadāyaka
Ja 177: Tinduka Jātaka
“All around us see them stand”—This is a story told by the Master whilst at Jetavana, about perfect knowledge. As in the Mahabodhi Birth, and the Ummagga Birth, on hearing his own knowledge praised, he remarked, “Not this once only is the Buddha wise, but wise he was before and fertile in all resource;” and told the following old story.
Tha Ap 177: Sīhāsanadāyaka
Ja 178: Kacchapa Jātaka
“Here was I born”—This story the Master told in Jetavana, how a man got rid of malaria.
Tha Ap 178: Maggadattika
Ja 179: Satadhamma Jātaka
“What a trifle”—This story the Master told while sojourning in Jetavana, about the twenty-one unlawful ways of earning a livelihood.
Tha Ap 179: Ekadīpiya
Dhp 179–196: 14. The Buddhas
Ja 180: Duddada Jātaka
“Tis hard to do as good men do”—This story the Master told whilst in Jetavana, about alms given in common.
Tha Ap 180: Maṇipūjaka
Ja 181: Asadisa Jātaka
“Prince Peerless, skilled in archers’ craft”—This story the Master told at Jetavana, about the Great Renunciation. The Master said, “Not now alone, Brethren, has the Tathagata made the Great Renunciation: in other days he also renounced the white parasol of royalty, and did the same.” And he told a story of the past.
Tha Ap 181: Tikicchaka
Ja 182: Samgamavacara Jātaka
“O Elephant, a hero thou”—This story the Master told while staying at Jetavana, about Elder Nanda.
Tha Ap 182: Saṅghupaṭṭhāka
Ja 183: Valodaka Jātaka
“This sorry draught”—This story the Master told whilst at Jetavana, about five hundred persons who ate broken meat.
Tha Ap 183: Kuṭajapupphiya
Ja 184: Giridanta Jātaka
“Thanks to the groom”—This story the Master told while staying in Veluvana Park, about keeping bad company. The circumstances have been already recounted under the Mahilamukha Jataka. Again, as before, the Master said: “In former days this Brother kept bad company just as he does now.” Then he told an old story.
Tha Ap 184: Bandhujīvaka
Ja 185: Anabhirati Jātaka
“Thick, muddy water”—This story the Master told while staying in Jetavana, and it was about a young brahmin.
Tha Ap 185: Koṭumbariya
Ja 186: Dadhi-Vahana Jātaka
“Sweet was once the mango’s savour”—This story the Master told whilst dwelling in Jetavana, on the subject of keeping bad company. The circumstances were the same as above. Again the Master said: “Brethren, bad company is evil and injurious; why should one talk of the evil effects of had company on human beings? In days long gone by, even a vegetable, a mango tree, whose sweet fruit was a dish fit for the gods, turned sour and bitter through the influence of a noisome and bitter nimb tree.” Then he told a story.