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The Jataka, Volume I: Book I.--Ekanipāta: No. 150. S...

Buddha's Previous LivesJataka TalesPali Text Society

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"Befriend a villain."--This story was told by the Master when at the Bamboo-grove, about King Ajātasattu'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 Gayāsīsa. And following Devadatta's wicked counsels, he slew the good and virtuous old King his father, who had entered on the Paths, thereby destroying his own chance of…

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