{"collection":"Sacred Texts: Buddhism","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_bud_j1_j1153_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_bud_j1_j1153_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_bud_j1_j1153_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bud/j1/j1153.htm","summary":"\"Befriend a villain.\"--This story was told by the Master when at the Bamboo-grove, about King Aj\u0101tasattu's adherence to false teachers 1. For he believed in that rancorous foe of the Buddhas, the base and wicked Devadatta, and in his infatuation, wishing to do honour to Devadatta, expended a vast sum in erecting a monastery at Gay\u0101s\u012bsa. And following Devadatta's wicked counsels, he slew\nthe good and virtuous old King his father, who had entered on the Paths, thereby destroying his own chance of\u2026","tags":["Buddha's Previous Lives","Jataka Tales","Pali Text Society"],"text":null,"title":"The Jataka, Volume I: Book I.--Ekanip\u0101ta: No. 150. S...","tradition":"Sacred Texts: Buddhism","translated_text":null,"word_count":1406}