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Jataka Vol. I: Book I.--Ekanipāta: No. 82. Mittavinda-Jātaka



p. 209
No. 82.
MITTAVINDA-JĀTAKA.
"No more to dwell."--This story was told by the Master while at Jetavana, about
a self-willed Brother. The incidents of this Birth, which took place in the days
of the Buddha Kassapa, will be related in the Tenth Book in the
Mahā-Mittavindaka Jātaka 1.
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Then the Bodhisatta uttered this Stanza:--
No more to dwell in island palaces
Of crystal, silver, or of sparkling gems,--
With flinty headgear thou’rt invested now;
Nor shall its griding torture ever cease
Till all thy sin be purged and life shall end.
So saying, the Bodhisatta passed to his own abode among the Devas. And
Mittavindaka, having donned that headgear, suffered grievous torment till his
sin had been spent and he passed away to fare according to his deserts.
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His lesson ended, the Master identified the Birth, by saying, "This self-willed
Brother was the Mittavindaka of those days, and I myself the King of the Devas."



Footnotes
209:1 No. 439. See No. 41, and Divyāvadāna, p. 603, &c.



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