Khuddaka Nikaya - Jataka II

Khuddaka Nikaya - Jataka II

Jataka Vol. II: Contents


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CONTENTS.
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151.RĀJOVĀDA-JĀTAKA1
Two kings, both wise and good, meet in a narrow way, and a dispute arises
who is to give place. Both are of the same age and power. Their drivers
sing each his master's praises. One is good to the good, and bad to the
bad; the other repays evil with good. The first acknowledges his superior,
and gives place.
152.SIGĀLA-JĀTAKA4
The Bodhisatta is a young lion, one of seven brothers; a Jackal proposes
love to his sister. Six of the brothers set out to kill the jackal, but
seeing him as he lies in a crystal grotto, imagine him to be in the sky,
leap up and kill themselves. The Bodhisatta roars, and the jackal dies of
fear.
153.SŪKARA-JĀTAKA7
A boar challenges a lion to fight; and then in fear wallows amid filth
until he smells so foul that the lion will not come near him, but owns
himself vanquished rather than fight with him.
154.URAGA-JĀTAKA9
A Garuḷa chases a serpent, which taking the form of a jewel, fixes
himself upon an ascetic's garment, and by this means wins safety.
155.GAGGA-JĀTAKA11
How a goblin had power over all people who did not wish each other well
at a sneeze, and how he was foiled.
156.ALĪNA-CITTA-JĀTAKA13
An elephant runs a thorn into its foot; it is tended by some carpenters,
and serves them out of gratitude. His young one takes his place
afterwards, and is bought by the king for a large sum. How on the king's
death, it routs a hostile host, and saves the kingdom for the king's
infant son.
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157.GUṆA-JĀTAKA17
A jackal rescues a lion, who out of gratitude makes him a friend. The
lioness is jealous of the she-jackal; then the whole matter is explained,
and maxims given in praise of friendship.
158.SUHANU-JĀTAKA21
Two savage horses, that maltreat all other of their kind, strike up a
sudden friendship with each other, thus illustrating the proverb, 'Birds
of a feather.'
159.MORA-JĀTAKA23
How a peacock kept itself safe by reciting spells; how its mind was
disturbed by hearing the female's note, and it was caught; how the king
desired to eat it, but the peacock discoursed such good divinity that he
was stayed; and finally the bird was set free again to return to the
mountains.
160.VINĪLAKA-JĀTAKA26
A bird, the offspring of a goose with a crow, is being carried by his
father's two other sons to see him, but is arrogant and compares them to
horses that serve him; so he is sent back again.
161.INDASAMĀNAGOTTA-JĀTAKA28
How a man kept a fat elephant, which turned against him and trampled him
to death.
162.SANTHAVA-JĀTAKA29
How a man had his house burnt by reason of the great offerings which he
made to his sacred fire.
163.SUSĪMA-JĀTAKA31
How a lad whose hereditary right it was to manage a festival, journeyed
2000 leagues in a day, learnt the ceremonial, and returned in time to
conduct the ceremony.
164.GIJJHA-JĀTAKA34
About a merchant who succoured some vultures, and they in return stole
cloths and other things and brought to him; how one was caught, and the
king learnt the story, and all the goods were restored.
165.NAKULA-JĀTAKA36
How a mongoose and a snake were friends, and distrusted each other
nevertheless; and how they were made at one.
166.UPASĀḶHA-JĀTAKA37
How a certain man was particular in choice of burying-grounds, and how he
was shown that there is no spot free of taint from some dead body.
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167.SAMIDDHI-JĀTAKA39
How a nymph tempted the saint to love, and he resisted, since no man
knows the time of death.
168.SAKUṆAGGHI-JĀTAKA40
How a quail beat a falcon by fighting on his own ground.
169.ARAKA-JĀTAKA42
How the Buddha forsook the world, and discoursed on charity.
170.KAKAṆṬAKA-JĀTAKA43
(See Mahā-ummagga.)
171.KALYĀṆA-DHAMMA-JĀTAKA44
How a certain man became a recluse all because of a lucky greeting.
172.DADDARA-JĀTAKA45
How a jackal amongst lions betrayed himself by his tongue.
173.MAKKAṬA-JĀTAKA47
How a monkey disguised himself as an ascetic, and was found out.
174.DŪBHIYA-MAKKAṬA-JĀTAKA48
How the Bodhisatta drew water for a monkey, and all he got for his pains
was a grimace and an insult.
175.ĀDICCUPAṬṬHĀNA-JĀTAKA50
How a rascally monkey made havoc in the settlement, and the people took
him for a holy being.
176. KALĀYA-MUṬṬHI-JĀTAKA51
How a monkey threw away a handful of peas to find one.
177.TIṆḌUKA-JĀTAKA53
How a troop of monkeys entered a village by night, and were surrounded by
the villagers; and the device by which they were saved.
178.KACCHAPA-JĀTAKA55
How a tortoise came to grief because he loved his home too much.
179.SATADHAMMA-JĀTAKA57
How a proud young brahmin ate the leavings of a low-caste man, and then
felt ashamed of himself.
180.DUDDADA-JĀTAKA59
Where faith is, no gift is small.
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181.ASADISA-JĀTAKA60
Of a clever archer, and his feats.
182.SAṀGĀMĀVACARA-JĀTAKA63
How a noble elephant obeyed the word of command.
183.VĀLODAKA-JĀTAKA65
He that is noble keeps a steady brain even though he drain most potent
liquor dry.
184.GIRIDANTA-JĀTAKA67
Evil communications corrupt good manners.
185.ANABHIRATI-JĀTAKA68
On serenity of mind.
186.DADHI-VĀHANA-JĀTAKA69
The Magic Razor-axe, Milk-bowl, and Drum.
187.CATUMAṬṬA-JĀTAKA73
How a jackal was reproved for intruding.
188.SĪHAKOṬṬHUKA-JĀTAKA75
How a mongrel cub among lions was betrayed by its voice.
189.SĪHACAMMA-JĀTAKA76
The ass in the lion's skin.
190.SĪLĀNISAṀSA-JĀTAKA77
How a virtuous barber saved another man by his merit.
191.RUHAKA-JĀTAKA79
How a wicked wife fooled her husband, and sent him prancing down the
street in horse-trappings.
192.SIRI-KĀḶAKAṆṆI-JĀTAKA80
(See Mahā-ummagga.)
193.CULLA-PADUMA-JĀTAKA81
Of a wicked wife, who tried to murder her husband, and finally with her
paramour was brought for trial before her husband, then become king.
194.MAṆICORA-JĀTAKA85
Of the plot devised by a king to take the wife of another man; and how
Sakka caused him to change bodies with his victim, and so to be executed
himself.
195.PABBATŪPATTHARA-JĀTAKA88
How the Bodhisatta advised a king to condone an intrigue.
196.VALĀHASSA-JĀTAKA89
How some shipwrecked mariners escaped from a city of goblins by aid of a
flying horse.
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197.MITTĀMITTA-JĀTAKA91
How to tell friend from foe.
198.RĀDHA-JĀTAKA92
How a parrot told tales of his mistress, and had his neck wrung.
199.GAHAPATI-JĀTAKA94
How a wife tried to trick her husband, and was found out.
200.SĀDHUSĪLA-JĀTAKA96
How a father chose a husband for his daughters.
201.BANDHANĀGĀRA-JĀTAKA97
The real fetters are those of desire.
202.KEḶI-SĪLA-JĀTAKA 98
How Sakka rebuked an irreverent king.
203.KHANDHA-VATTA-JĀTAKA100
How to win the goodwill of snakes.
204.VĪRAKA-JĀTAKA103
How a crow tried to steal meat, and was plucked.
205.GAṄGEYYA-JĀTAKA104
How two fish disputed which should be the more beautiful, and a tortoise
answered that he was more beautiful than either.
206.KURUṄGA-MIGA-JĀTAKA106
How a woodpecker and a tortoise rescued their friend the antelope from a
trap.
207.ASSAKA-JĀTAKA108
How a king was cured of love for his dead wife by a revelation of her
present condition.
208.SUṀSUMĀRA-JĀTAKA110
How a crocodile wanted the heart of a monkey, and how the monkey
pretended that it was hanging on a fig-tree.
209.KAKKARA-JĀTAKA112
How a fowler tried to stalk a bird by covering himself with branches.
210.KANDAGALAKA-JĀTAKA113
How a woodpecker struck a tree too hard for it, and perished.
211.SOMADATTA-JĀTAKA115
How a foolish man gave when he meant to crave.
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212.UCCHIṬṬHA-BHATTA-JĀTAKA117
How a husband found out his wife's intrigue by the state of the rice.
213.BHARU-JĀTAKA118
How the king of Bharu made two bands of hermits to quarrel.
214.PUṆṆA-NADĪ-JĀTAKA121
How a king sent a riddling message to his former preceptor.
215.KACCHAPA-JĀTAKA123
How a tortoise was conveyed through the air, biting with his teeth upon a
stick; and how he answered to a taunt, and fell.
216.MACCHA-JĀTAKA125
How a fish being captured lamented for loss of his wife, and was set at
liberty.
217.SEGGU-JĀTAKA126
How a pious greengrocer tested his daughter's virtue.
218.KŪṬA-VĀṆIJA-JĀTAKA127
How a man deposited ploughshares with a friend, and the friend protested
that they had been eaten by rats; and of the clever device by which the
man's guilt was brought home to him.
219.GARAHITA-JĀTAKA129
How a monkey had been a captive of men, and escaped, and his censure upon
mankind.
220.DHAMMADDHAJA-JĀTAKA131
How impossible tasks were set to a good man, who did them all by aid of
Sakka.
221.KĀSĀVA-JĀTAKA138
How a man disguised himself in holy robes, and killed elephants; and how
he was put to shame.
222.CŪLA-NANDIYA-JĀTAKA140
How two monkeys sacrificed their lives to save their mother, and what
befel the hunter.
223.PUṬA-BHATTA-JĀTAKA142
How a harsh husband was rebuked.
224.KUMBHĪLA-JĀTAKA145
225.KHANTI-VAṆṆANA-JĀTAKA145
How two sinners were made to amend their ways.
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226.KOSIYA-JĀTAKA146
How an owl came to grief through sallying forth untimely.
227.GŪTHA-PĀṆA-JĀTAKA147
How an intoxicated beetle challenged an elephant, and was ignominiously
destroyed.
228.KĀMANĪTA-JĀTAKA149
How a king was cured of greed.
229.PALĀYI-JĀTAKA151
How a king was frightened away by the mere sight of a city gate.
230.DUTIYA-PALĀYI-JĀTAKA153
How a hostile king was frightened away by the sight of the Bodhisatta,
and the hearing of his threats.
231.UPĀHANA-JĀTAKA154
How a pupil tried to outdo his teacher, and was worsted.
232.VĪṆĀ-THŪṆA-JĀTAKA156
How a girl thought a humpback was a right royal man, and how she was
undeceived.
233.VIKAṆṆAKA-JĀTAKA157
How some fish came to feed at the sound of a drum; and how a malevolent
crocodile was speared.
234.ASITĀBHŪ-JĀTAKA158
How a man, enamoured of a sprite, lost his wife by this lust.
235.VACCHA-NAKHA-JĀTAKA160
How a Brother was tempted to return to the world, and the evil of a
worldly life shown forth.
236.BAKA-JĀTAKA161
How a crane shammed sleep, in order to catch fish; and how he was
exposed.
237.SĀKETA-JĀTAKA162
(As No. 68.)
238.EKAPADA-JĀTAKA163
Of a precocious boy who asked a philosophical question; and the answer to
the same.
239.HARITA-MĀTA-JĀTAKA164
A water-snake that fell into a fish-trap, and how the fish all fell upon
him; with a moral.
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240.MAHĀ-PIṄGALA-JĀTAKA165
How the porter mourned when his tyrannical master died, lest he should
prove too much for the King of Death, and should be sent back to earth
again.
241.SABBA-DĀṬHA-JĀTAKA168
How a jackal learnt the spell 'Of subduing the world,' and by it
collected a great army of wild beasts; and how he was discomfited.
242.SUNAKHA-JĀTAKA170
How a dog gnawed through his leash, and escaped from servitude.
243.GUTTILA-JĀTAKA172
How a great musician played by aid of Sakka to the delight of all that
heard.
244.VĪTICCHA-JĀTAKA178
How a certain man tried to catch the Master with phrases.
245.MŪLA-PARIYĀYA-JĀTAKA180
How the Master discomfited some would-be clever youths.
246.TELOVĀDA-JĀTAKA182
That there is no harm in eating meat, but only in taking life.
247.PĀDAÑJALI-JĀTAKA183
How a fool was found out.
248.KIṀSUKOPAMA-JĀTAKA184
How four lads saw a tree, and each described it differently.
249.SĀLAKA-JĀTAKA186
How soft words failed to bring down a monkey from a tree.
250.KAPI-JĀTAKA187
How a monkey disguised himself as an ascetic, and was found out.
251.SAṀKAPPA-JĀTAKA189
How an ascetic was tempted by lust, and how he was saved.
252.TILA-MUṬṬHI-JĀTAKA193
How a teacher chastised a pupil, and the pupil meditated revenge, but was
appeased.
253.MAṆI-KAṆṬHA-JĀTAKA197
How a serpent and an ascetic were friends, and how the ascetic got rid of
the serpent.
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254.KUṆḌAKA-KUCCHI-SINDHAVA-JĀTAKA199
Of a high-bred foal; how he knew his own worth, and what he could do for
a marvel.
255.SUKA-JĀTAKA203
Of a parrot that used to bring food oversea for his parents, and how he
ate too much, and was drowned.
256.JARUDAPĀNA-JĀTAKA205
How some men won a treasure by digging, and by digging too much lost it
again.
257.GĀMAṆI-CAṆḌA-JĀTAKA207
How a prince's wisdom was tried. Also how a man was haled to the king's
tribunal for injuries done unwittingly, and the judgements of the king
thereupon; and of certain problems propounded to him by those he met.
[Several stories in one.]
258.MANDHĀTU-JĀTAKA216
How a king could not win contentment, not though he ruled as King of
Heaven.
259.TIRĪṬA-VACCHA-JĀTAKA218
How a king's life was saved, and the gratitude which he showed to his
deliverer.
260.DŪTA-JĀTAKA221
How a man got a meal by calling himself 'Belly's Messenger.'
261.PADUMA-JĀTAKA222
How some boys tried to wheedle a noseless gardener that he might give
them a bunch of lotus.
262.MUDU-PĀṆI-JĀTAKA224
Love will find a way; and the nature of womankind.
263.CULLA-PALOBHANA-JĀTAKA227
How the Bodhisatta is tempted by a woman, and succumbs.
264.MAHĀ-PANĀDA-JĀTAKA229
(Incomplete: as No. 489.)
265.KHURAPPA-JĀTAKA231
How one brave man saved a caravan from robbers.
266.VĀTAGGA-SINDHAVA-JĀTAKA233
How a she-ass fell in love with a fine horse, and by coquetry lost him.
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267.KAKKATA-JĀTAKA235
How an elephant, by aid of his faithful mate, destroyed an immense crab.
268.ĀRĀMA-DŪSA-JĀTAKA237
How some monkeys were left to water a garden, and how they pulled up the
trees to proportion the water to the length of the roots.
269.SUJĀTA-JĀTAKA239
How the shrew was tamed by observation of a cuckoo and a jay.
270.ULŪKA-JĀTAKA242
How the owl was proposed as king of the birds, but because of his sour
looks, not taken.
271.UDAPĀNA-DŪSAKA-JĀTAKA243
The vile nature of jackals.
272.VYAGGHA-JĀTAKA244
How a sprite drove away from its wood a lion and tiger, and how men came
and cut the trees down.
273.KACCHAPA-JĀTAKA246
How a monkey insulted a tortoise, and how he was punished.
274.LOLA-JĀTAKA248
How a crow lost his life through greed.
275.RUCIRA-JĀTAKA250
(As No. 274.)
276.KURU-DHAMMA-JĀTAKA251
How there was a drought, and by observance of virtue the rain was made to
come.
277.ROMAKA-JĀTAKA260
How a sham ascetic tried to kill a bird, and failed.
278.MAHISA-JĀTAKA262
Of a wicked monkey, that was killed for his vileness; and of the patience
of the Bodhisatta.
279.SATAPATTA-JĀTAKA264
How a man did not know his friend from his enemy; and how the Bodhisatta
was a robber.
280.PUṬA-DŪSAKA-JĀTAKA266
Of a monkey who thought to please a gardener by destroying the potties
which he made.
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281.ABBHANTARA-JĀTAKA267
How a queen longed for a 'middle mango'; and how a pet parrot procured
one.
282.SEYYA-JĀTAKA273
How a marauding monarch was conquered by kindness.
283.VAḌḌHAKI-SŪKARA-JĀTAKA275
How a boar drilled an army of boars to conquer a tiger; and how a sham
ascetic was done to death.
284.SIRI-JĀTAKA279
How luck came of eating the flesh of certain birds.
285.MAṆI-SŪKARA-JĀTAKA283
How some boars tried to sully crystal by rubbing it, and only made it
shine the more.
286.SĀLŪKA-JĀTAKA285
How an ox envied the fatted pig.
287.LĀBHA-GARAHA-JĀTAKA287
Of the evil of a worldly life.
288.MACCH-UDDĀNA-JĀTAKA288
How a parcel of money was lost in the river, and restored by the
river-spirit in the belly of a fish.
289.NĀNA-CCHANDA-JĀTAKA290
How a king fell into the hands of thieves, and a brahmin saw it; and what
were the boons he asked.
290.SĪLA-VĪMAṀSA-JĀTAKA292
How a man tried his own reputation for virtue.
291.BHADRA-GHAṬA-JĀTAKA293
The Wishing-Bowl, with a moral ending.
292.SUPATTA-JĀTAKA297
How a queen of the crows desired some meat, and a brave crow got it for
her.
293.KĀYA-VICCHINDA-JĀTAKA299
Of a sick man who on his recovery became religious, to his own great
advantage.
294.JAMBU-KHĀDAKA-JĀTAKA299
The Fox and the Crow, with a difference.
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295.ANTA-JĀTAKA300
Similar to the last, but vice versa.
296.SAMUDDA-JĀTAKA301
Of a crow that feared the sea might be drunk dry.
297.KĀMA-VILĀPA-JĀTAKA302
How desire is stronger than pain.
298.UDUMBARA-JĀTAKA303
Old birds cannot be caught with chaff.
299.KOMĀYA-PUTTA-JĀTAKA305
Upon the reformation of a mischievous monkey.
300.VAKA-JĀTAKA306
How a wolf kept a holy day service.