{"collection":"Buddhism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bud/j1/j1120.htm","path":"bud/j1/j1120.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bud/j1/j1120.htm","text":"The Jataka, Volume I, tr. by Robert Chalmers, [1895]\n\"As died the partridge.\"--This story was told by the Master while at Jetavana, about Kok\u0101lika, whose story will be found in the Thirteenth Book in the Takk\u0101riya J\u0101taka 1.\nSaid the Master, \"As now, Brethren, so likewise in former times, Kok\u0101lika's tongue has worked his destruction.\"\nSo saying, he told this story of the past.\n_____________________________\nOnce on a time when Brahmadatta was reigning in Benares, the Bodhisatta was born a brahmin in the North country. When he grew up, he received a complete education at Takkasil\u0101, and, renouncing Lusts, gave up the world to become a hermit. He won the Five Knowledges and the Eight Attainments, and all the recluses of the Himalayas to the number of five hundred assembled together and followed him as their master.\nInsight was his as he dwelt amid his disciples in the Himalayas.\nIn those days there was an ascetic suffering from jaundice who was chopping wood with an axe. And a chattering Brother came and sat by him, and directed his work, bidding him give here a chop and there a chop, [432] till the jaundiced ascetic lost his temper. In a rage he cried, \"Who are you to teach me how to chop wood?\" and lifting up his keen-edged axe stretched the other dead with a single blow. And the Bodhisatta had the body buried.\nNow on an ant-hill hard by the hermitage there dwelt a partridge which early and late was always piping on the top of the ant-hill. Recognising the note of a partridge, a sportsman killed the bird and took it off with him. Missing the bird's note, the Bodhisatta asked the hermits why they did not hear their neighbour the partridge now. Then they told him what had happened, and he linked the two events together in this stanza:--\nHaving developed within himself the four Perfect States, the Bodhisatta thus became destined to rebirth in the Brahma Realm.\nSaid the Master, \"Brethren, as now, so likewise in former days Kok\u0101lika's tongue has worked his destruction.\" And at the close of this lesson he identified the Birth by saying, \"Kok\u0101lika was the meddling ascetic of those days, my followers the band of hermits, and I their master.\"\n260:1 No. 481. Kok\u0101lika was one of Devadatta's schismatics.","title":"The Jataka, Volume I: Book I.--Ekanip\u0101ta: No. 117. T...","type":"page"}