Khuddaka Nikāya — The Minor Collection – page 23

Tha Ap 480: Vallikāraphaladāyaka

Ja 481: Takkariya Jātaka

“I spoke”—This story the Master told while dwelling in Jetavana, about Kokalika.

Tha Ap 481: Pānadhidāyaka

Ja 482: Ruru Jātaka

“I bring you tidings”—This story the Master told while dwelling in the Bamboo-grove, about Devadatta. One might say to him, “The Master is most useful to you, friend Devadatta. You received holy orders from the Tathagata, from him you learnt the Three Baskets, you obtained gifts and honour.” When such things were said, it is credibly reported he would reply, “No, friend; the Master has done me no good, not so much as a blade of grass is worth. Of myself I received holy orders, myself I learned the Three Baskets, by myself I gained gifts and honour.” In the Hall of Truth the Brethren talked of all this: “Ungrateful is Devadatta, my friend, and forgets a kindness done.” The Master came in, and would know what they talked of sitting there. They told him. Said he, “It is not now the first time, Brethren, that Devadatta is ungrateful, but ungrateful he was before; and in days long gone by his life was saved by me, yet he knew not the greatness of my merit.” So saying, he told a story of the past.

Tha Ap 482: Pulinacaṅkamiya

Ja 483: Sarabha-Miga Jātaka

“Toil on, O man”—This story the Master told while dwelling in Jetavana, to explain fully a question concisely put by himself to the Commander of the Faith.

Tha Ap 483: Paṁsukūlasaññika

Ja 484: Salikedara Jātaka

“The crop of rice”—This was a story the Master told while dwelling at Jetavana, about a Brother who supported his mother. The occasion will be explained in the Sama Birth. Then the Master sent for this Brother, and asked him, “Is what I hear true, Brother, that you support lay folks?” “It is true, Sir.” “Who are they?” “My mother and father, Sir.” Said the Master, “Well done, Brother! Wise men of old, even when embodied as the lower animals, having been born as parrots even, when their parents grew old laid them in a nest and fed them with food which they brought in their own beaks.” So saying, he told a story of the past.

Tha Ap 484: Buddhasaññaka

Ja 485: Canda-Kinnara Jātaka

“’Tis passing away”—This is a story which the Master told, while dwelling in the banyan grove hard by Kapilapura about Rahula’s mother when she was in the palace.

Tha Ap 485: Bhisadāyaka

Ja 486: Maha-Ukkusa Jātaka

“The country churls”—This story the Master told while dwelling at Jetavana, about Mitta-gandhaka, a lay Brother.

Tha Ap 486: Ñāṇatthavika

Ja 487: Uddalaka Jātaka

“With uncleansed teeth”—This story the Master told, while dwelling in Jetavana, about a dishonest man. This man, even though dedicated to the faith that leads to salvation, notwithstanding to gain life’s necessaries fulfilled the threefold practice of knavery.

Tha Ap 487: Candanamāliya

Ja 488: Bhisa Jātaka

“May horse and kine”—This story the Master told whilst dwelling in Jetavana, about a backsliding Brother. The circumstances will appear under the Kusa Birth. Here again the Master asked—“Is it true, Brother, that you have backslidden?” “Yes, Sir, it is true.” “For what cause?” “For sin’s sake, Sir.” “Brother why do you backslide, after embracing such a faith as this which leads to salvation; and all for sin’s sake? In days of yore, before the Buddha arose, wise men who took to the religious life, even they who were outside the pale, made an oath, and renounced a suggested idea connected with temptations or desires!” So saying, he told a story of the past.

Tha Ap 488: Dhātupūjaka

Ja 489: Suruci Jātaka

“I am”—This story the Master told while dwelling hard by Savatthi in the mansion of Migara’s mother, how she, Visakha the great lay Sister, received Eight Boons.

Tha Ap 489: Puḷinuppādaka

Ja 490: Panc-Uposatha Jātaka

“Thou art content”—This story the Master told while dwelling at Jetavana, about five hundred lay Brethren who were under the Sabbath vows. At that time they say that the Master, seated upon the Buddha’s glorious seat, in the Hall of Truth, in the midst of folk of all the four kinds, looking around upon the gathering with a gentle heart, perceived that this day the teaching would turn on the tale of the lay Brethren. Then he addressed these, and said, “Have the lay Brethren taken upon them the Sabbath vows?” “Yes, Sir, they have,” was the answer. “It was well done, this sabbath celebration was the practice of wise men of old: the wise men of old, I say, kept the sabbath celebration in order to subdue the sins of passion and lust.” Then at their request he told a story of the past.

Tha Ap 490: Taraṇiya

Ja 491: Maha-Mora Jātaka

“If I being captured”—This story the Master told while dwelling in Jetavana, about a backsliding Brother. To this Brother the Master said, “Is it true, as I am told, that you have backslidden?” “Yes, Sir, it is true.” “Brother,” said he, “will not this lust for pleasure confound a man like you? The hurricane that overwhelms Mount Sineru is not put to the blush before a withered leaf. In days of yore this passion has confounded holy beings, who for seven thousand years held aloof from following the lusts that arise within.” With these words, he told a story of the past.

Tha Ap 491: Dhammarucī

Ja 492: Taccha-Sukara Jātaka

“I wandered, searching far”—This story the Master told while dwelling at Jetavana, about two ancient Elders.

Tha Ap 492: Sālamaṇḍapiya

Ja 493: Maha-Vanija Jātaka

“Merchants from many”—This story the Master told while dwelling at Jetavana, about some traders who lived in Savatthi.

Tha Ap 493: Tīṇikiṅkhanipupphiya

Ja 494: Sadhina Jātaka

“A wonder in the world”—This story the Master told while dwelling in Jetavana, about lay Brethren who took on the fast-day vows. On that occasion the Master said: “Lay Brethren, wise men of old, by virtue of their keeping the fast-day vows, went in the body to heaven, and there dwelt for a long time.” Then at their request, he told a story of the past.

Tha Ap 494: Paṁsukūlapūjaka

Ja 495: Dasa-Brahmana Jātaka

“The righteous king”—This story the Master told while dwelling in Jetavana, about a gift incomparable. This has been explained in the Sucira Birth of the Eighth Book.

Tha Ap 495: Koraṇḍapupphiya

Ja 496: Bhikkha-Parampara Jātaka

“I saw one sitting”—This story the Master told, whilst dwelling in Jetavana, about a certain landowner. He was a true and faithful believer, and showed honour continually to the Tathagata and the Order.

Tha Ap 496: Kiṁsukapupphiya

Ja 497: Matanga Jātaka

“Whence comest thou”—This story the Master told while dwelling in Jetavana, about the hereditary king Udena. At that time, the reverend Pindola-bharadvaja passing from Jetavana through the air, used generally to pass the heat of the day in king Udena’s park at Kosambi. The Elder, we are told, had in a former existence been king, and for a long time had enjoyed glory in that very park with his retinue. By virtue of the good then by him performed, he used to sit there in the heat of the day, enjoying the bliss of Attainment which was its fruit.

Tha Ap 497: Upaḍḍhadussadāyaka

Ja 498: Citta-Sambhuta Jātaka

“Every good deed”—This story the Master told while dwelling in Jetavana, about two fellow-priests of the reverend Maha-kassapa, who lived happily together. This pair, we are told, were most friendly, and had share for share in all things with the utmost fairness: even when they walked for alms, together they went out and together came in, nor could they endure to be apart. In the Hall of Truth sat the Brethren, praising their friendship, when the Master came in, and asked what they talked of as they sat there. They told him; and he replied, “Their friendship in one existence, Brethren, is nothing to wonder at; for wise men of old kept friendliness unbroken throughout three or four different existences.” So saying, he told them a story of the past.

Tha Ap 498: Ghatamaṇḍadāyaka

Ja 499: Sivi Jātaka

“If there be any human”—This story the Master told while dwelling at Jetavana, about the gift incomparable. The circumstances have been fully told in Book Viii. under the Sovira Birth. But here the king, on the seventh day, gave all the requisites and asked for thanks; but the Master went away without thanking him. After breakfast the king went to the monastery, and said, “Why did you return no thanks, Sir?” The Master said, “The people were unpurified, your majesty.” He went on to declare the Law, reciting the stanza that begins “To heaven the avaricious shall not go.” The king, pleased at heart, did reverence to the Tathagata by presenting an outer robe of the Sivi country, worth a thousand pieces of money; then he returned to the city.

Tha Ap 499: Udakadāyaka

Ja 500: Sirimanda Jātaka

“Of wisdom full”—This Problem of Sirimanda will be given at large in the Maha-ummagga.

Tha Ap 500: Puḷinathūpiya

Ja 501: Rohanta-Miga Jātaka

“In fear of death”—This story the Master told while dwelling in the Bamboo Grove, about the reverend Ananda, who made renunciation of his life. This renunciation will be described in Book Xxi., under the Culla-hamsa Birth, the Subduing of Dhanapala. When this reverend man had renounced his life for the Master’s sake, they gossiped about it in the Hall of Truth: “Sirs, the reverend Ananda, having attained to the detailed knowledge of the course of religious training, renounced his life for the Dasabala.” The Master came in, asking what they spoke of as they sat there. They told him. Said he, “Brothers, this is not the first time he has laid down his life for my sake; he has done it before.” Then he told them a story of the past.

Tha Ap 501: Naḷakuṭikadāyaka

Ja 502: Hamsa Jātaka

“There go the birds”—This story the Master told while dwelling in the Bamboo Grove, about Elder Ananda’s renunciation of life. Then also the Brethren were talking in the Hall of Truth about the Elder’s good qualities, when the Master came in and asked them what they sat talking of there. He said, “This is not the first time, Brethren, that Ananda has renounced his life for my sake, but he did the same before.” And then he told them a story of the past.

Tha Ap 502: Piyālaphaladāyaka

Ja 503: Sattigumba Jātaka

“With, a great host”—This story the Master told while sojourning in the deer-park Maddakucchi, about Devadatta. When Devadatta threw the stone, and a fragment pierced the Blessed One’s foot, there was great pain in it. Numbers of the Brethren gathered to see the Tathagata. Now when the Blessed One saw the people gathered together, he said to them, “Brethren, this place is crowded: there will be a great gathering. Come now, carry me in a litter to Maddakucchi.” So then the Brethren did. Jivaka made the Tathagata’s foot well. The Brethren sitting before the Master talked of it: “Sirs, a sinner is Devadatta and sinners are all his people; the sinner keeps company with the sinful.” The Master asked, “What do ye talk of, Brethren?” They told him. Said he, “It has been so before, and this is not the first time Devadatta the sinner has kept sinful company.” Then he told them a story of the past.

Tha Ap 503: Tīṇikaṇikārapupphiya

Ja 504: Bhallatiya Jātaka

“Was a king Bhallatiya”—This story the Master told while dwelling at Jetavana about Mallika, the Jessamine Bride. One day we are told there was a quarrel between her and the king about conjugal rights. The king was angry and would not look at her. “I suppose,” she thought, “the Tathagata does not know that the king is wroth with me.” When the Master learnt of it, next day, he sought alms in Benares, accompanied by the Brethren, and then repaired to the gate of the king’s palace. The king came to meet him, and relieved him of his bowl, took him up on the terrace, set the Brethren down in due order, gave them the water of welcome, offered them excellent food; after the meal he sat down on one side. “Why,” asked the Master, “why does not Mallika appear?” He said, “’Tis her own foolish pride in her prosperity.” The Master said, “O great king! long, long ago when you were a fairy, you kept apart for one night from your mate, and then went mourning for seven hundred years.” Then at his request, he told a story of the past.

Tha Ap 504: Ekapattadāyaka

Ja 505: Somanassa Jātaka

“Who does thee harm, etc.”—This story the Master told while dwelling at Jetavana, how Devadatta went about to slay him. Then the Master said, “This is not the first time, Brethren, that Devadatta has sought to slay me, but he did the same thing before.” Then he told them a story of the past.

Tha Ap 505: Kāsumāriphaladāyaka

Ja 506: Campeyya Jātaka

“Who is it like”—This story the Master told while dwelling in Jetavana, about the fast-day vows. The Master said, “It is well done, lay Brethren, that ye have taken upon you the fast-day vows. Wise men of old likewise even renounced the glory of being a Serpent King, and lived under these vows.” Then at their request he told a story of the past.

Tha Ap 506: Avaṭaphaliya

Ja 507: Maha-Palobhana Jātaka

“From Brahma’s heaven”—This story the Master told while dwelling in Jetavana, about the defilement of the sanctified. The circumstances have already been given. Here again said the Master, “Women cause defilement even in sanctified souls,” and then told this story of the past.

Tha Ap 507: Pāraphaliya

Ja 508: Panca-Pandita Jātaka

The Birth of the Five Wise Men will be given in the Maha-ummagga.

Tha Ap 508: Mātuluṅgaphaladāyaka

Ja 509: Hatthi-Pala Jātaka

“At last we see”—This story the Master told, while dwelling at Jetavana, about the Renunciation. Then with these words,—“It is not the first time, Brethren, that the Tathagata made the Renunciation, but it was so before”—the Master told them a story of the past.

Tha Ap 509: Ajelaphaladāyaka

Ja 510: Ayoghara Jātaka

“Life once conceived, etc.” This story the Master told about the Great Renunciation. Here again he said, “This is not the first time, Brethren, that the Tathagata has made the Great Renunciation, for he did the same before.” And he told them a story of the past.

Tha Ap 510: Amoraphaliya

Ja 511: Kimchanda Jātaka

“Why dost thou”—This story the Master told, while dwelling at Jetavana, about the observance of fast-days.

Tha Ap 511: Tālaphaliya

Ja 512: Kumbha Jātaka

“Who art thou”—This story the Master, while dwelling at Jetavana, told concerning five hundred women, friends of Visakha, who were drinkers of strong drink.

Tha Ap 512: Nāḷikeradāyaka

Ja 513: Jayaddisa Jātaka

“Lo! after”—This story the Master told of a Brother who supported his mother. The introductory story is like that told in the Sama Birth. But on this occasion the Master said, “Sages of old gave up the white umbrella with its golden wreath to support their parents,” and with these words he told a story of the past.

Tha Ap 513: Kureñjiyaphaladāyaka

Ja 514: Chaddanta Jātaka

“Large-eyed and peerless one”—This was a story the Master, while sojourning at Jetavana, told of a female novice.

Tha Ap 514: Kapitthaphaladāyaka

Ja 515: Sambhava Jātaka

“This rule”—This story the Master when residing at Jetavana told concerning the Perfection of Wisdom. The circumstances leading to the introductory story will be set forth in the Mahaummagga Birth.

Tha Ap 515: Kosumbhaphaliya

Ja 516: Mahakapi Jātaka

“A king of Kasi”—This story was told by the Master, when dwelling in the Bamboo Grove, about Devadatta’s hurling a stone at him. So when the Brethren blamed Devadatta for having suborned archers to shoot the Buddha and afterwards hurled a stone at him, the Master said, “Not now only, but formerly also, Devadatta flung a stone at me,” and so saying he related a story of the past.

Tha Ap 516: Ketakapupphiya

Ja 517: Dakarakkhasa Jātaka

All of this will be set forth in the Mahaummagga Birth.

Tha Ap 517: Nāgapupphiya

Ja 518: Pandara Jātaka

“No man that lets”—This was a story told by the Master, whilst sojourning at Jetavana, as to how Devadatta told a lie, and how the earth opened and swallowed him up. At that time, when Devadatta was being blamed by the Brethren, the Master said, “Not now only, Brethren, but of old too Devadatta told a lie and was swallowed up by the earth,” and so saying he told a story of the past.

Tha Ap 518: Ajjunapupphiya

Ja 519: Sambula Jātaka

“Tied to the spot”—This story the Master, while dwelling at Jetavana, told of queen Mallika. The introductory story is related at length in the Kummasapinda Birth.

Tha Ap 519: Kuṭajapupphiya

Ja 520: Gandatindu Jātaka

“Zeal is the way”—This story the Master, dwelling at Jetavana, told concerning the admonition of a king. This admonition of a king has already been related in full.

Tha Ap 520: Ghosasaññaka

Ja 521: Tesakuna Jātaka

“’Tis this I ask”—This story the Master, while dwelling at Jetavana, told by way of admonition to the king of Kosala. Now this king came to hear the preaching of the law and the Master addressed him in the following terms: “A king, Sire, ought to rule his kingdom righteously, for whenever kings are unrighteous, then also are his officers unrighteous.” And admonishing him in the right way as related in the Catukkanipata (4th Book) he pointed out the suffering and the blessing involved in following or abstaining from evil courses, and expounded in detail the misery resulting from sensual pleasures, comparing them to dreams and the like, saying, “In the case of these men,

Tha Ap 521: Sabbaphaladāyaka

Ja 522: Sarabhanga Jātaka

“Beringed and gallantly”—This was a story the Master, while dwelling in the Bamboo Grove, told concerning the death of the Elder, the Great Moggallana. The Elder Sariputta, after gaining the consent of the Tathagata when he was living at Jetavana, went and died in the village of Nala, in the very room where he was born.

Tha Ap 522: Padumadhāriya

Ja 523: Alambusa Jātaka

“Then mighty Indra”—This story the Master, while residing at Jetavana, told about the temptation of a Brother by the wife of his unregenerate days. The subject-matter of the tale is related in full in the Indriya Birth. Now the Master asked the Brother, “Is it true, Brother, that you were rendered discontented?” “It is true, Reverend Sir.” “By whom?” “By my wife of former days.” “Brother,” he said, “this woman wrought mischief for you: it was owing to her that you fell away from mystic meditation, and lay for three years in a lost and distracted condition, and on the recovery of your senses you uttered a great lamentation,” and so saying he told him a story of the past.

Tha Ap 523: Tiṇamuṭhidāyaka

Ja 524: Samkhapala Jātaka

“Of comely presence”—This was a story told by the Master, while dwelling at Jetavana, with regard to the duties of holy days. Now on this occasion the Master, expressing approval of certain lay folk who kept holy days, said: “Wise men of old, giving up the great glory of the Naga world, observed holy days,” and at their request he related a story of the past.

Tha Ap 524: Pecchadāyaka

Ja 525: Culla-Sutasoma Jātaka

“Good friends”—This story the Master while residing at Jetavana told concerning the perfect exercise of self-abnegation. The introductory story corresponds with that of the Mahanaradakassapa Birth.

Tha Ap 525: Saraṇāgamaniya

Ja 526: Nalinika Jātaka

“Lo! the land”—This story the Master told while residing at Jetavana concerning the temptation of a Brother by the wife of his unregenerate days. And in telling the story he asked the Brother by whom he had been led astray. “By a former wife,” said he. “Verily, Brother,” the Master said, “she worketh mischief for you. Of old it was owing to her that you fell away from mystic meditation and were mightily destroyed.” And so saying he told a story of the past.

Tha Ap 526: Abbhañjanadāyaka

Ja 527: Ummadanti Jātaka

“Whose house is this”—This story the Master, while residing at Jetavana, told about a back-sliding Brother.

Tha Ap 527: Supaṭadāyaka

Ja 528: Mahabodhi Jātaka

“What mean, these things”—This story the Master, while residing at Jetavana, told concerning the Perfection of Wisdom. The incident will be found related in the Mahaummagga. Now on this occasion the Master said, “Not now only, but formerly also, the Tathagata was wise and crushed all disputants,” and with these words he told a story of the past.

Tha Ap 528: Daṇḍadāyaka

Ja 529: Sonaka Jātaka

“A thousand crowns”—This is a story told by the Master, while dwelling at Jetavana, concerning the Perfection of Renunciation. On this occasion the Bodhisatta sitting in the Hall of Truth in the midst of the Brethren, as they were singing the praises of the Perfection of Renunciation, said, “Brethren, not now only, but of old also the Tathagata verily left the world and made the Great Renunciation,” and so saying he related a story of the past.

Tha Ap 529: Girinelapūjaka

Ja 530: Samkicca Jātaka

“At sight of Brahmadatta”—This story the Master, while dwelling in the mango grove of Jivaka, told concerning the murder of his own father by Ajatasattu.