{"collection":"Buddhism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bud/j1/j1063.htm","path":"bud/j1/j1063.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bud/j1/j1063.htm","text":"The Jataka, Volume I, tr. by Robert Chalmers, [1895]\n\"Go not too far.\"--This story was told by the Master while at Jetavana, about another self-willed person.\n_____________________________\nOnce on a time when Brahmadatta was reigning in Benares, the Bodhisatta came to life as a conch-blower, and went up to Benares with his father to a public festival. There he earned a great deal of money by his conch-blowing, and started for home again. On his way through a forest which was infested by robbers, he warned his father not to keep on blowing his conch; but the old man thought he knew better how to keep the robbers off, and blew away hard without a moment's pause. Accordingly, just as in the preceding story, the robbers returned and plundered the pair. And, as above, the Bodhisatta repeated this stanza:\nHis lesson ended, the Master shewed the connexion and identified the Birth by saying, \"This self-willed Brother was the father of those days, and I myself his son.\"","title":"The Jataka, Volume I: Book I.--Ekanip\u0101ta: No. 60. Sa\u1e41khadhamana-J\u0101taka","type":"page"}