{"collection":"Buddhism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bud/j3/j3001.htm","path":"bud/j3/j3001.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bud/j3/j3001.htm","text":"The Jataka, Vol. III, tr. by H.T. Francis and R.A. Neil, [1897]\n30I. CULLAK\u0100LI\u1e44GA-J\u0100TAKA 1\nA king, being eager to fight, finds occasion to quarrel with another king. Misled by a prophecy of victory and neglecting the omens, he is defeated by his adversary.\n302. MAH\u0100ASS\u0100ROHA-J\u0100TAKA 1\nA king, being defeated by rebels, finds a hospitable shelter with a poor countryman, and rewards his benefactor with the half of his kingdom.\n303. EKARAJA-JATAKA 9\nA king is taken prisoner and tortured, and by his patience under suffering wins his enemy to repentance.\n304. DADDARA-J\u0100TAKA 10\nHow two brothers were driven from their father's kingdom, and how their pride was humbled by the contumely they suffered in their exile.\n305. S\u012aLAV\u012aMA\u1e40SANA-J\u0100TAKA 12\nA teacher tests the virtue of his pupils by tempting them to steal. The only youth, that stands the test, is rewarded by marrying his master's daughter.\n306. SUJ\u0100TA-J\u0100TAKA 13\nHow the daughter of a fruiterer became a queen, and by her pride nearly lost her position.\n307. PAL\u0100SA-J\u0100TAKA 15\nA brahmin pays honour to a tree-spirit and is rewarded by the discovery of a buried treasure.\n308. JAVASAKU\u1e46A-J\u0100TAKA 17\nThe story of the woodpecker and the ungrateful lion.\n309. CHAVAKA-J\u0100TAKA 18\nHow a pariah, who stole mangoes, ventured to reprove a king for allowing a priest to teach him from a lower seat.\n310. SAYHA-J\u0100TAKA 20\nHow a brahmin refused to give up the ascetic life in order to become family priest to a king.\n311. PUCIMANDA-J\u0100TAKA 22\nHow a nimb-tree spirit frightened away a robber whose presence endangered the safety of the tree.\n312. KASSAPAMANDIYA-J\u0100TAKA 24\nA father and son in journeying together fall out by the way, and the old man is reproved for his want of self-restraint.\n313. KHANTIV\u0100DI-J\u0100TAKA 26\nHow a wicked king cruelly maltreated an ascetic, and how the patience of the holy man endured to the end, and the king was cast into Hell.\n314. LOHAKUMBHI-J\u0100TAKA 29\nA king is terrified by hearing awful cries in the night and is urged by his family priest to avert the evil omen by the sacrifice of living creatures. A young brahmin interprets the sounds to be the cries uttered by lost souls in Hell, and the king takes comfort and forbids the sacrifice.\n315. MA\u1e40MMSA-J\u0100TAKA32\nHow four young merchants tried to wheedle a hunter out of his venison, and how one alone by his cunning address succeeded.\n316. SASA-J\u0100TAKA 34\nHow a hare, in default of other food, offered its own flesh to be eaten, and was rewarded by having its form supernaturally impressed on the face of the moon.\n317. MATARODANA-J\u0100TAKA 38\nHow a youth, when his brother died, demonstrated the folly of grieving for the dead.\n318. KANAVERA-J\u0100TAKA 39\nHow a courtezan rescued a robber by betraying her lover to death, and how she was afterwards punished for her treachery.\n319. TITTIRA-J\u0100TAKA 43\nA decoy-partridge is troubled with scruples of conscience.\n320. SUCCAJA-J\u0100TAKA 44\nHow a prince requited his wife's devotion with base ingratitude, until he was brought to a better mind by the admonition of his minister.\n321 KU\u1e6cID\u016aSAKA-J\u0100TAKA 47\nHow a monkey, through envy, destroyed a bird's nest.\n322. DADDABHA-J\u0100TAKA 49\nOf the timid hare and the flight of the beasts.\n323. BRAHMADATTA-J\u0100TAKA 52\nOf the ascetic who for twelve years had not the courage to ask for a trifling boon.\n324. CAMMAS\u0100\u1e6cAKA-J\u0100TAKA 55\nOf a foolish mendicant who met his death by mistaking the butting of a ram for a respectful salutation.\n325. GODHA-J\u0100TAKA 56\nHow a greedy ascetic was outwitted by a lizard.\n326. KAKK\u0100RU-J\u0100TAKA 58\nHow a wicked priest was punished for assuming virtues to which he had no claim.\n327. K\u0100K\u0100TI-J\u0100TAKA 60\nHow a roc carried off a king's wife to his island home, and was afterwards outwitted by the king's minstrel.\n328. ANANUSOCIYA-J\u0100TAKA 62\nThe story of the holy man who found a wife by means of a golden image, and how on her death he neither fasted nor wept.\n329. K\u0100LAB\u0100HU-J\u0100TAKA 65\nThe story of the parrots and the black monkey, and how the monkey fell into disgrace and the parrots regained the king's favour.\n330. S\u012aLAV\u012aMA\u1e40SA-J\u0100TAKA 66\nOf the man who tested the power of virtue and of the moral lessons he learned from the hawk and the piece of meat and from the slave-girl to whom loss of hope alone brought peace.\n331. KOK\u0100LIKA-J\u0100TAKA 68\nHow a talkative king was admonished by the fate of the young bird that cried \"cuckoo\" too soon.\n332. RATHALA\u1e6c\u1e6cHI-J\u0100TAKA 69\nOf the priest and the carters and the danger of giving judgment before hearing both sides.\n333. GODHA-J\u0100TAKA 71\nHow a roasted lizard ran away and how a king was convicted of ingratitude to his wife.\n334. R\u0100JOV\u0100DA-J\u0100TAKA 73\nA king is taught by the parable of the sweet and bitter fig how his realm is affected by a just or unjust rule.\n335. JAMBUKA-J\u0100TAKA 74\nOf the fate of the jackal that presumed to play the part of the lion.\n336. BRAH\u0100CHATTA-J\u0100TAKA 76\nHow a prince by means of a spell discovered buried treasure and substituted grass for gold.\n337. P\u012a\u1e6cHA-J\u0100TAKA 78\nThe duty of hospitality inculcated by the story of the merchant and the ascetic.\n338. THUSA-J\u0100TAKA 80\nHow a king was saved from being killed by his son, through the repetition of a spell at critical moments.\n339. B\u0100VERU-J\u0100TAKA 83\nHow a crow was ousted from a position of favour when a peacock appeared.\n340. VISAYHA-J\u0100TAKA 85\nHow a rich merchant, after he was reduced to beggary, continued to exercise charity.\n341. KA\u1e46\u1e0cARI-J\u0100TAKA 87\n(See Kun\u016bla-J\u0101taka, No. 523.)\n342. V\u0100NARA-J\u0100TAKA 87\nThe crocodile outwitted by the monkey.\n343. KUNTANI-J\u0100TAKA 89\nThe heron's revenge for the loss of her young ones.\n344 AMBACORA-J\u0100TAKA 90\nHow a false ascetic robbed a mango orchard and charged some innocent maidens with the theft.\n345. GAJAKUMBHA-J\u0100TAKA 92\nOf a slothful king admonished by the example of a lazy tortoise.\n346. KESAVA-J\u0100TAKA 93\nThe sick hermit and his friend, or love the best physician.\n347. AYAK\u016a\u1e6cA-J\u0100TAKA 96\nHow a king who had forbidden the sacrifice of living creatures was shielded by a god from the vengeance of a goblin.\n348. ARA\u00d1\u00d1A-J\u0100TAKA 98\nOf a virtuous youth led astray by evil communications.\n349. SANDHIBHEDA-J\u0100TAKA 99\nA jackal by slanderous words brings about a fatal quarrel between a lion and a bull.\n350. DEVAT\u0100PA\u00d1HA-J\u0100TAKA 101\n(See Ummagga-J\u0101taka.)\n351. MA\u1e46IKU\u1e46\u1e0cALA-J\u0100TAKA 102\n(Same as No. 303.)\n352. SUJ\u0100TA-J\u0100TAKA 103\nA father is cured of inordinate grief by the feigned madness of his son.\n353. DHONAS\u0100KHA-J\u0100TAKA 105\nHow a king, who was guilty of gross cruelty, met with fitting retribution.\n354. URAGA-J\u0100TAKA 107\nHow, when a brahmin lost his son, neither he nor any of his family lamented or wept, and of their exceeding great reward.\n355. GRATA-J\u0100TAKA 111\n356. K\u0100RA\u1e46\u1e0cIYA-J\u0100TAKA 113\nA teacher is taught by his pupil the folly of preaching to unwilling hearers.\n357. LA\u1e6cUKIKA-J\u0100TAKA 115\nHow a quail brought about the destruction of an elephant that had killed her young ones.\n358. CULLADHAMMAP\u0100LA-J\u0100TAKA 117\nA king, being jealous of his queen's affection for her child, has the boy mutilated and killed, and is punished by being cast into Hell.\n359. SUVA\u1e46\u1e46AMIGA-J\u0100TAKA 120\nHow a stag caught in a snare was released from death by the devotion of his doe.\n360. SUSSONDI-J\u0100TAKA 123\n(Same as No. 327.)\n361. VA\u1e46\u1e46\u0100ROHA-J\u0100TAKA 126\nThe jackal as calumniator tries in vain to set a lion and a tiger at variance.\n362. S\u012aLAV\u012aMA\u1e40SA-J\u0100TAKA 128\nHow a man tried his own reputation for virtue.\n363. HIRI-J\u0100TAKA 129\n(Imperfect. Same as Akata\u00f1\u00f1u-J\u0101taka, No. 90.)\n364. KHAJJOPANAKA-J\u0100TAKA 130\n(See Mah\u0101ummagga. )\n365. AHIGU\u1e46\u1e0cIKA-J\u0100TAKA 130\nHow a monkey that had been beaten was not to be cajoled by soft words.\n366. GUMBIYA-J\u0100TAKA 132\nHow a merchant warned the members of his caravan against eating strange food, and how those that neglected his warning were poisoned by an evil spirit.\n367. S\u0100LIYA-J\u0100TAKA 133\nThe biter bit, or the story of the knavish doctor who was killed by the snake which he pretended was harmless.\n368. TACAS\u0100RA-J\u0100TAKA 134\nThe same story as the preceding one, to which is added how certain lads were acquitted of the charge of having caused the death of the doctor.\n369. MITTAVINDA-J\u0100TAKA 136\n(A fragment of No. 41.)\n370. PAL\u0100SA-J\u0100TAKA 137\nHow a Judas tree was destroyed by the parasitic growth of a banyan shoot.\n371. D\u012aGHITIKOSALA-J\u0100TAKA 139\nA prince spares the life of the king who had slain his father and thereby wins him to repentance.\n372. MIGAPOTAKA-J\u0100TAKA 140\nAn ascetic is admonished against excessive grief for the loss of a pet deer.\n373. M\u016aSIKA-J\u0100TAKA 142\nA king by repeating a spell at critical moments baffles the attempts of his heir to kill him.\n374. CULLADHANUGGAHA-J\u0100TAKA 144\nA woman who betrayed her husband to death, and was afterwards deserted by her lover, has her folly brought home to her by witnessing the fate of a greedy jackal.\n375. KAPOTA-J\u0100TAKA 148\nHow a greedy crow was made ridiculous and tortured to death.\n376. AV\u0100RIYA-J\u0100TAKA 151\nHow a foolish ferryman behaved when offered good advice instead of his fare.\n377. SETAKETU-J\u0100TAKA 153\nHow caste and feigned sanctity were foiled.\n378. DAR\u012aMUKHA-J\u0100TAKA 156\nHow a king renounced his kingdom on the advice of an old friend, who had become a paccekabuddha.\n379. NERU-J\u0100TAKA 159\nHow royal birds avoid a golden mountain which makes all birds appear alike.\n380. \u0100SA\u1e46KA-J\u0100TAKA 161\nHow a king spent three years in finding out the name of his future queen.\n381. MIG\u0100LOPA-J\u0100TAKA 164\nHow a disobedient vulture perished.\n382. SIRIK\u0100LAKA\u1e46\u1e46I-J\u0100TAKA 165\nHow precedence was settled by a good merchant between the goddesses of Good and Ill Fortune.\n383. KUKKU\u1e6cA-J\u0100TAKA 168\nHow a cat failed to deceive a cock.\n384. DHAMMADDHAJA-J\u0100TAKA 170\nHow a hypocritical crow was put to death.\n385. NANDIYAMIGA-J\u0100TAKA 171\nHow a good deer brought blessings to his kindred and to all animals.\n386. KHARAPUTTA-J\u0100TAKA 174\nHow a king got a charm from a n\u0101ga by which he understood the sounds of all animals: his queen tried to get the charm from him, but was foiled through some advice given by Sakka, disguised as a goat.\n387. S\u016aCI-J\u0100TAKA 178\nHow a young smith made a marvellous needle, and thereby won to wife the daughter of a head-smith.\n388. TU\u1e46\u1e0cILA-J\u0100TAKA 180\nHow a pig explained to his younger brother that death is not to be feared.\n389. SUVA\u1e46\u1e46AKAKKA\u1e6cA-J\u0100TAKA 183\nHow a farmer was saved by a good crab from being killed by a snake in league with a crow: the two latter were themselves killed.\n390. MAYHAKA-J\u0100TAKA 186\nHow a greedy, murdering uncle was compared to a certain bird, and so converted.\n391. DHAJAVIHE\u1e6cHA-J\u0100TAKA 189\nHow a wicked person, disguised as a Brother, caused the expulsion of Brethren from a kingdom, and the spiritual ruin of the people: Sakka interfered and saved the kingdom.\n392. BHISAPUPPHA-J\u0100TAKA 191\nHow a brahmin was accused of stealing the smell of a flower.\n393. VIGH\u0100SA-J\u0100TAKA 193\nHow certain self-indulgent monks were warned by a parrot.\n394. VA\u1e6c\u1e6cAKA-J\u0100TAKA 194\nHow a quail explained to a crow how to get fat.\n395. K\u0100KA-J\u0100TAKA 195\nHow a greedy crow was made ridiculous and put to death.\n396. KUKKU-J\u0100TAKA 197\nHow a king was converted by certain parables.\n397. MANOJA-J\u0100TAKA 199\nHow a lion was enticed to his death by the counsel of a jackal.\n398. SUTANO-J\u0100TAKA 201\nHow a king, falling into the power of a man-eating goblin, sent people daily to be eaten: a young man got the better of the goblin and converted him.\n399. GIJJHA-J\u0100TAKA 204\nHow a good young vulture was loosed from a snare by a hunter.\n400. DABBHAPUPPHA-J\u0100TAKA 205\nHow two otters, who had caught a fish, were cheated by a jackal.\n40I. DASA\u1e46\u1e46AKA-J\u0100TAKA 207\nHow a king was cured of a sickness, born of longing for his wife, by seeing a man swallowing a sword.\n402. SATTUBHASTA-J\u0100TAKA 210\nHow an old brahmin was sent away by his wife to beg: a snake got into his meal-bag unperceived: a young brahmin preacher guessed that the snake was there, and then exposed the wife's wickedness.\n403. A\u1e6c\u1e6cHISENA-J\u0100TAKA 216\nHow a brahmin explains to a king why he makes no petition.\n404. KAPI-J\u0100TAKA 218\nHow a naughty monkey brought ruin on his kindred.\n405. BAKABRA\u1e24MA-J\u0100TAKA 219\nHow an angel was converted from heresy.\n406. GANDH\u0100RA-J\u0100TAKA 221\nHow two kings became ascetics, and one was admonished in a fault by the other.\n407. MAH\u0100KAPI-J\u0100TAKA 225\nHow a monkey saved his followers at the cost of his own life.\n408. KUMBHAK\u0100RA-J\u0100TAKA 228\nHow four kings became ascetics through observing a mango-tree, a bracelet, a flock of birds, and same bulls respectively: a potter and his wife separately follow their example.\n409. DA\u1e36HADHAMMA-J\u0100TAKA 233\nHow a she-elephant, forgotten by the king in her old age, was restored to honour.\n410. SOMADATTA-J\u0100TAKA 235\nHow an ascetic was comforted for the loss of a young elephant.\n411. SUS\u012aMA-J\u0100KATA 237\nHow a king became an ascetic on being shewn a grey hair by his chief queen.\n412. KO\u1e6cISIMBALI-J\u0100TAKA 239\nHow a tree-spirit was frightened by a bird and comforted by a roc-king.\n413. DH\u016aMAK\u0100RI-J\u0100TAKA 241\nHow a king neglected old friends for new ones: his case illustrated by a story of a brahmin goatherd and some deer.\n414. J\u0100GARA-J\u0100TAKA 243\nHow an ascetic kept vigil at nights.\n415. KUMM\u0100SAPI\u1e46\u1e0cA-J\u0100TAKA 244\nHow a king and queen declared the merits in former births that brought about their birth in royal rank.\n416. PARANTAPA-J\u0100TAKA 240\nHow a prince understood the speech of jackals: and how a king's son discovered and avenged his father's murder after many years.\n417. KACC\u0100NI-J\u0100TAKA 253\nHow an old woman, expelled from her son's house owing to her daughter-in-law, thought that Right was dead: and how the whole family became reconciled.\n418. A\u1e6c\u1e6cHASADDA-J\u0100TAKA 256\nHow eight sounds that had frightened a king were explained to him harmlessly.\n419. SULAS\u0100-J\u0100TAKA 260\nHow a man who would have killed his wife was killed by her.\n420. SUMA\u1e44GALA-J\u0100TAKA 263\nHow a king would not decide a case till his anger was over.\n421. GA\u1e44GAM\u0100LA-J\u0100TAKA 266\nHow a willing servant was reborn as a king: how he shared his kingdom for a time with a poor water-carrier who had shown himself an honest fellow: how a barber got from the king the explanation of his birth in the kingly rank, and became a paccekabuddha, honoured by the king.\n422. CETIYA-J\u0100TAKA 271\nHow a king, who told a lie in the golden age, sank into the earth and so down to Hell.\n423. INDRIYA-J\u0100TAKA 276\nHow a tempted ascetic was warned by the story of a miserable hunter.\n424. \u0100DITTA-J\u0100TAKA 280\nHow seven paccekabuddhas came and received gifts from a king.\n425. A\u1e6c\u1e6cH\u0100NA-J\u0100TAKA 282\nHow an ascetic repulsed a woman who had once behaved harshly to him.\n426. D\u012aPI-J\u0100TAKA 285\nHow a panther ate a she-goat for all her politeness.\n427. GIJJHA-J\u0100TAKA 287\nHow a vulture perished, through attempting too bold a flight.\n428. KOSAMB\u012a-J\u0100TAKA 289\n(Imperfect\u2014with a reference to the story in No. 371.)\n429. MAH\u0100SUKA-J\u0100TAKA 291\nHow a grateful parrot refused to leave a barren fig-tree.\n430. CULLASUKA-J\u0100TAKA 294\nThe same story as the preceding one.\n431. H\u0100RITA-J\u0100TAKA 295\nOf an ascetic who would not tell a lie to conceal his sin.\n432. PADAKUSALAM\u0100\u1e46AVA-JATAKA 298\nA boy receives, as a gift from a goblin mother, the power of recognizing footsteps even in the air, and a king, to test the boy's skill, steals his own jewels and then sets the boy to catch the thief. When the boy by a number of pointed stories convicts him of theft, the king is put to death by his own subjects and the boy becomes king.\n433. LOMASAKASSAPA-J\u0100TAKA 306\nHow a king promised his daughter in marriage to an ascetic, if he would offer a living sacrifice, and how the ascetic resisted the temptation.\n434. CAKKAV\u0100KA-J\u0100TAKA 309\nHow a crow, through his greediness, could not attain to the beauty of the ruddy goose.\n435. HALIDDIR\u0100GA-J\u0100TAKA 311\nA youth, who was being led astray by female seductions, is rescued by the sage counsels of his father.\n436. SAMUGGA-J\u0100TAKA 313\nHow a demon, who swallowed his wife and carried her about in his belly, even so failed to keep her virtuous.\n437. P\u016aTIMA\u1e40SA-J\u0100TAKA 316\nHow a wise she-goat outwitted the jackal that was plotting to kill her.\n438. TITTIRA-J\u0100TAKA 319\nHow a wicked ascetic killed a learned partridge, and how a lion and a tiger avenged the death of the partridge.","title":"The Jataka, Vol. III: Table of Contents","type":"page"}