{"collection":"Buddhism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bud/j3/j3052.htm","path":"bud/j3/j3052.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bud/j3/j3052.htm","text":"The Jataka, Vol. III, tr. by H.T. Francis and R.A. Neil, [1897]\n[153] \"Stript of all the joys of life,\" etc.\u2014This story the Master, while dwelling at Jetavana, told concerning a councillor who was guilty of misconduct in the harem of the king of Kosala. The incident that gave rise to the story has been given in full before. 1\nHere too the Bodhisatta became king in Benares. The wicked councillor called in the king of Kosala and got him to seize upon the kingdom of K\u0101si, and to throw the Bodhisatta into prison. The king of Benares developed ecstatic meditation and sat cross-legged in the air. A fierce heat sprang up in the body of the marauding king, and he drew nigh to the king of Benares and repeated the first stanza:\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Jewelled earrings, horse and car,\n Robbed of child and loving wife,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Nought thy pleasure seems to mar.\n[154] On hearing him the Bodhisatta recited these verses:\u2014\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Pleasures soon must all forego,\n Sorrow has no power to grieve us,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Joy itself soon turns to woe.\n Moons with new-born orb appearing\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Wax awhile, to wane and die,\n Suns with warmth all nature cheering,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Haste to set in yonder sky.\n Change is this world's law I see,\n Sorrow has no pangs for me.\nThus now did the Great Being expound the Truth to the usurper king, and bringing his conduct to the test, repeated these stanzas 1:\u2014\nA bad king will a case unheard decide; The warrior prince a well-weighed verdict gives,\n The false ascetic is a rogue confest. \n \n Wrath in the sage can ne\u2019er be justified.\n Of righteous judge the fame for ever lives.\n[155] The king of Kosala having thus gained the forgiveness of the Bodhisatta and given him back his kingdom, departed to his own country.\nThe Master, having ended his discourse, thus identified the Birth: \"At that time \u0100nanda was the king of Kosala, and I myself was the king of Benares.\"\n102:1 See no. 282, Vol. ii. and no. 303 supra.","title":"The Jataka, Vol. III: No. 351.: Ma\u1e47iku\u1e47\u1e0dala-J\u0101taka.","type":"page"}