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Homage to the Blessed One, the Worthy One, the Perfectly Enlightened One

In the Minor Collection

Jātaka Pāḷi

(First Part)

1.

The Book of the Ones

1.

The Chapter on the Incontrovertible Ground

1.

The Birth Story of the Incontrovertible Ground

1.More DetailsCommentaries

Some declare the incontrovertible ground; the reasoners declare a second.

Knowing this, the wise one should take up that which is incontrovertible.

The Birth Story of the Incontrovertible Ground is first.

2.

The Birth Story of the Sandy Waste

2.More DetailsCommentaries

Untiring, digging in the sandy waste, in the open ground there they found water;

Thus the sage, possessed of the power of energy, untiring, may find peace of heart.

The Birth Story of the Sandy Waste is second.

3.

The Birth Story of the Seriva Merchant

3.More DetailsCommentaries

If here you fail to attain the fixed course of the Good Teaching;

For a long time you will regret, like the merchant of Serivā.

The Birth Story of the Seriva Merchant is third.

4.

The Birth Story of the Minor Millionaire

4.More DetailsCommentaries

Even with little, the wise one, discerning with his capital;

Raises himself up, like one fanning a small fire.

The Birth Story of the Minor Millionaire is fourth.

5.

The Birth Story of the Measure of Rice

5.More DetailsCommentaries

"What is the worth of a measure of rice, tell me the price of horses, O king;

Bārāṇasī within and without, this is the worth of a measure of rice."

The Birth Story of the Measure of Rice is fifth.

6.

The Birth Story of Divine Virtue

6.More DetailsCommentaries

Accomplished in shame and moral fear, established in bright qualities;

Peaceful good persons in the world are called 'those with divine qualities'.

The Birth Story of Divine Virtue is sixth.

7.

The Birth Story of the Wood-Gatherer

7.More DetailsCommentaries

"I am your son, great king, support me, O lord of people;

The king supports others too, why not the king his own offspring?"

The Birth Story of the Wood-Gatherer is seventh.

8.

The Birth Story of the Village Headman

8.More DetailsCommentaries

Even for those who are unhurried, the hope for fruit succeeds;

I am one whose holy life has ripened, know this thus, headman."

The Birth Story of the Village Headman is eighth.

9.

The Birth Story of Maghadeva

9.More DetailsCommentaries

The hairs on my head, these have arisen as snatchers of life;

Divine messengers have appeared, it is time for my going forth.

The Birth Story of Maghadeva is ninth.

10.

The Birth Story of the Happy Dweller

10.More DetailsCommentaries

"Whom others do not protect, and who does not protect others;

He indeed, O king, sleeps happily, without expectation towards sensual pleasures."

The Birth Story of the Happy Dweller is tenth.

The Chapter on the Incontrovertible Ground is first.

Its summary:

Excellent, Unmistakable, Sandy Waste, Serivara, Wise, Measure of Rice;

Shame, Son, Excellent, Spoken, Village Headman, and Who Does Not Protect - with these, ten.

2.

The Chapter on Morality

11.

The Birth Story of the Marked Deer

11.More DetailsCommentaries

There is benefit for those of good conduct, for those whose practice is friendly welcome;

See Lakkhaṇa coming, honoured by the congregation of kinsmen;

Then see this dark one, quite bereft of kinsmen, indeed.

The Birth Story of the Marked Deer is first.

12.

The Birth Story of the Banyan Deer

12.More DetailsCommentaries

One should resort to the banyan tree, one should not dwell with a branch;

Death in the banyan tree is better, than life in a branch.

The Birth Story of the Banyan Deer is second.

13.

The Birth Story of the Arrow

13.More DetailsCommentaries

Shame on the arrow with a shaft, that deeply pierces a man;

Shame on that country, where a woman is the leader;

And those beings too are despised, who have come under the control of women.

The Birth Story of the Arrow is third.

14.

The Birth Story of the Wind Deer

14.More DetailsCommentaries

There is surely nothing worse than flavours, or than residences or intimacies;

Sañjaya brought under his control with flavours the wind-deer dwelling in the thicket.

The Birth Story of the Wind Deer is fourth.

15.

The Birth Story of the Rough-Eating

15.More DetailsCommentaries

The deer with eight hooves, O Kharādiya, with horns bent and very bent;

Having transgressed the time on seven occasions, I do not endeavour to exhort him.

The Birth Story of the Rough-Eating is fifth.

16.

The Birth Story of the Three-Posture Deer

16.More DetailsCommentaries

The deer with three lying postures, of many deceits, with eight hooves, drinking water at midnight;

Breathing on the ground with one nostril, he will outwit with six tricks, dear sister, the nephew.

The Birth Story of the Three-Posture Deer is sixth.

17.

The Birth Story of the Wind

17.More DetailsCommentaries

Whether in the dark fortnight or in the bright, whenever the wind blows;

For cold spells are born of wind, you are both undefeated in this matter.

The Birth Story of the Wind is seventh.

18.

The Birth Story of the Food for the Dead

18.More DetailsCommentaries

If beings knew thus, that birth and continued existence are suffering;

No living being would kill another living being, for one who destroys life grieves.

The Birth Story of the Food for the Dead is eighth.

19.

The Birth Story of the Requested Food

19.More DetailsCommentaries

If you would be free, be free after death, for one becoming free is bound;

Not in this way do the wise become free, freedom is bondage for the fool.

The Birth Story of the Requested Food is ninth.

20.

The Birth Story of the Reed Drink

20.More DetailsCommentaries

Having seen a footprint not come out, having seen a footprint gone down;

We shall drink water with a reed, you will indeed not kill me.

The Birth Story of the Reed Drink is tenth.

The Morality Chapter is second.

Its summary:

Then Lakkhaṇa, Branch, Shame On, Again, Surely There Is Not, with Flavours, Rough and so on;

Excels, Excellent, Wind, Living Being, with Release, with the one named Reed - these are ten.

3.

The Chapter on the Antelope

21.

The Birth Story of the Antelope Deer

21.More DetailsCommentaries

This is known to the antelope, that you, Sepaṇṇi, lie;

I go to another Sepaṇṇi, your fruit does not please me.

The Birth Story of the Antelope Deer is first.

22.

The Birth Story of the Dog

22.More DetailsCommentaries

Those dogs raised in the royal family, of good breed, endowed with beauty and strength;

They are not to be killed, we are to be killed, this is not impartial, it is the slaughter of the weak.

The Birth Story of the Dog is second.

23.

The Birth Story of the Thoroughbred Ox

23.More DetailsCommentaries

Even lying on one side, pierced by darts;

Better than a mare is a thoroughbred, harness me, O charioteer.

The Birth Story of the Thoroughbred Ox is third.

24.

The Birth Story of the Thoroughbred

24.More DetailsCommentaries

Whenever, wherever, whenever, wherever, whenever, whenever;

The thoroughbred exerts its force, the mares fall behind there.

The Birth Story of the Thoroughbred is fourth.

25.

The Birth Story of the Ford

25.More DetailsCommentaries

"At different fords, charioteer, give the horse to drink;

A person through overeating, even with milk-rice becomes satisfied."

The Birth Story of the Ford is fifth.

26.

The Birth Story of the Woman's Face

26.More DetailsCommentaries

Having heard the words of the ancient thieves, the woman-faced one went about killing;

But having heard the words of the well-restrained, the noble elephant stood firm in all virtues.

The Birth Story of the Woman's Face is sixth.

27.

The Birth Story of the Frequent

27.More DetailsCommentaries

He was not able to take a mouthful, nor almsfood, nor kusa grass, nor to be rubbed;

I think from frequent seeing, the elephant developed affection for the dog.

The Birth Story of the Frequent is seventh.

28.

The Birth Story of Nandivisāla

28.More DetailsCommentaries

One should speak only what is pleasant, never what is unpleasant;

For one speaking pleasantly, he lifted the heavy burden;

And he obtained wealth for him, thereby he was delighted.

The Birth Story of Nandivisāla is the eighth.

29.

The Birth Story of Kaṇha

29.More DetailsCommentaries

Wherever the burden is heavy, wherever the road is deep;

Then they yoke the black one, and he bears that burden.

The Birth Story of Kaṇha is the ninth.

30.

The Birth Story of Munika

30.More DetailsCommentaries

Do not envy the sage, he eats food for the sick;

Living at ease, eat chaff, this is the characteristic of long life.

The Birth Story of Munika is the tenth.

The Kuruṅga Chapter is the third.

Its summary:

Antelope, Dog, Ox, Swift, Excellent, again Fierce, Rains, Glory, Named;

Woman, Face, Name, Delightful, Excellent, bears the burden - with Sage, ten.

4.

The Chapter on the Nest

31.

The Birth Story of Kulāvaka

31.More DetailsCommentaries

"The nests, Mātali, in the silk-cotton tree, avoid them with the chariot-pole;

We would rather give up our lives among the titans, than that my twice-born birds should become nestless."

The Birth Story of Kulāvaka is the first.

32.

The Birth Story of Dancing

32.More DetailsCommentaries

Your cry is delightful and your back is beautiful, and your neck resembles the colour of beryl;

And your tail-feathers are a fathom in length, but because of your dancing we do not give you our daughter.

The Dancing Jātaka, the second.

33.

The Birth Story of Sammodamāna

33.More DetailsCommentaries

Being joyful they go, the birds having taken up the net;

When they quarrel, then they will come under my control.

The Birth Story of Sammodamāna is the third.

34.

The Birth Story of the Fish

34.More DetailsCommentaries

Neither cold nor heat afflicts me, nor the snaring in the net;

But that the she-fish imagines me gone to another for delight.

The Fish Jātaka, the fourth.

35.

The Birth Story of Vaṭṭaka

35.More DetailsCommentaries

There are wings, but unable to fly, there are feet, but unable to walk;

Mother and father have departed, fire, go back.

The Birth Story of Vaṭṭaka is the fifth.

36.

The Birth Story of Sakuṇa

36.More DetailsCommentaries

The tree upon which the birds depended, that itself emits fire;

Seek the directions, O crooked-limbed ones, fear has arisen from the refuge.

The Birth Story of Sakuṇa is the sixth.

37.

The Birth Story of Tittira

37.More DetailsCommentaries

Those men who honour the senior, skilled in the Teaching;

Praiseworthy in this very life, and a fortunate realm in the future state.

The Birth Story of Tittira is the seventh.

38.

The Birth Story of Baka

38.More DetailsCommentaries

One wise in fraud does not perpetually thrive in happiness through fraud;

One wise in fraud obtains, like a heron with a crab.

The Birth Story of Baka is the eighth.

39.

The Birth Story of Nanda

39.More DetailsCommentaries

Methinks a heap of golden things, and a golden wreath, and Nandaka;

Where the slave, born a slave, standing, roars rough words.

The Birth Story of Nanda is the ninth.

40.

The Birth Story of Khadiraṅgāra

40.More DetailsCommentaries

I would rather fall into hell, feet upward, head downward;

I will not do what is ignoble, come, accept the almsfood.

The Birth Story of Khadiraṅgāra is the tenth.

The Kulāvaka Chapter is the fourth.

Its summary:

Siri, Mātali, Daughter, King of Birds, Delight, Come, Mother and Father, and again;

Tree, Senior, Parrot and Crab, likewise with Nandaka and Excellent Almsfood - ten.

5.

The Chapter on the Well-wisher

41.

The Birth Story of Losaka

41.More DetailsCommentaries

Whoever, when being admonished by one who wishes his welfare, who is compassionate for his good, does not follow the instruction;

He grieves like Mittaka, clinging to the goat's foot.

The Birth Story of Losaka is the first.

42.

The Birth Story of Kapota

42.More DetailsCommentaries

Whoever, when being admonished by one who wishes his welfare, who is compassionate for his good, does not follow the instruction;

Not having heeded the word of the pigeon, he lies as one gone into the hands of enemies.

The Birth Story of Kapota is the second.

43.

The Birth Story of Veḷuka

43.More DetailsCommentaries

Whoever, when being admonished by one who wishes his welfare, who is compassionate for his good, does not follow the instruction;

Thus he lies slain, like the father of Veḷuka.

The Birth Story of Veḷuka is the third.

44.

The Birth Story of Makasa

44.More DetailsCommentaries

Better is an enemy endowed with wisdom, than a friend devoid of wisdom;

For the idiot, thinking "I will kill the mosquito," split open his father's head.

The Birth Story of Makasa is the fourth.

45.

The Birth Story of Rohiṇī

45.More DetailsCommentaries

Better is a wise enemy, than a foolish compassionate one;

See the contemptible Rohiṇikā, having killed her mother, she grieves.

The Birth Story of Rohiṇī is the fifth.

46.

The Birth Story of Ārāmadūsaka

46.More DetailsCommentaries

Indeed, by one unskilled in benefit, beneficent conduct does not bring happiness;

The imprudent one neglects the benefit, just as the monkey monastery attendant.

The Birth Story of Ārāmadūsaka is the sixth.

47.

The Birth Story of Vāruṇidūsaka

47.More DetailsCommentaries

Indeed, by one unskilled in benefit, beneficent conduct does not bring happiness;

The imprudent one neglects the benefit, just as Koṇḍañña did the spirits.

The Birth Story of Vāruṇidūsaka is the seventh.

48.

The Birth Story of Vedabba

48.More DetailsCommentaries

Whoever desires benefit by wrong means, he suffers;

The hunters killed Vedabba, all of them met with disaster.

The Birth Story of Vedabba is the eighth.

49.

The Birth Story of Nakkhatta

49.More DetailsCommentaries

While waiting for the constellation, the benefit passed the fool by;

The benefit itself is the constellation for benefit, what will the stars do?

The Birth Story of Nakkhatta is the ninth.

50.

The Birth Story of Dummedha

50.More DetailsCommentaries

With a thousand imprudent ones, a sacrifice was entreated of me;

Now I shall sacrifice, for many are the unrighteous people.

The Birth Story of Dummedha is the tenth.

The Atthakāma Chapter is the fifth.

Its summary:

Then Friend, Mother, Excellent Pigeon, likewise Bamboo, Idiot, Rohiṇī;

Monkey, Liquor, and Mind-Reader again, likewise with Star and Excellent Sacrifice - ten.

The first fifty.

6.

The Chapter on Aspiration

51. The Birth Story of Mahāsīlava

51.More DetailsCommentaries

A person should indeed hope, a wise one should not become weary;

I see myself, as I wished, so it came to be.

The Birth Story of Mahāsīlava is the first.

52.

The Birth Story of Cūḷajanaka

52.More DetailsCommentaries

A person should indeed strive, a wise one should not become weary;

I see myself lifted from the water to dry land.

The Birth Story of Cūḷajanaka is the second.

53.

The Birth Story of the Puṇṇapāti

53.More DetailsCommentaries

Likewise the bowls are full, the talk proceeds differently;

By this reason I know, this is not good liquor.

The Birth Story of Puṇṇapāti is the third.

54.

The Birth Story of Kiṃphala

54.More DetailsCommentaries

This tree is not hard to climb, nor is it far from the village;

By this reason I know, this is not a tree with sweet fruit.

The Birth Story of Kiṃphala is the fourth.

55.

The Birth Story of Pañcāvudha

55.More DetailsCommentaries

Whoever, with an unslothful mind, a man of unslothful consciousness;

Develops wholesome mental states, for the attainment of freedom from bondage;

May reach gradually the elimination of all fetters.

The Birth Story of Pañcāvudha is the fifth.

56.

The Birth Story of the Mass of Gold

56.More DetailsCommentaries

Whoever, with a delighted mind, a man of delighted consciousness;

Develops wholesome mental states, for the attainment of freedom from bondage;

May reach gradually the elimination of all fetters.

The Birth Story of the Mass of Gold, the sixth.

57.

The Birth Story of the Monkey King

57.More DetailsCommentaries

For whom these four qualities exist, monkey-king, just as for you;

Truth, the Teaching, steadfastness, generosity - he overcomes the foe.

The Birth Story of the Monkey King, the seventh.

58.

The Birth Story of the Three Qualities

58.More DetailsCommentaries

For whom these three qualities exist, monkey-king, just as for you;

Dexterity, courage, wisdom - he overcomes the foe.

The Birth Story of the Three Qualities, the eighth.

59.

The Birth Story of the Drummer

59.More DetailsCommentaries

Blow, blow, but do not over-blow, for over-blowing is evil;

For by blowing a hundred was gained, by over-blowing it was destroyed.

The Birth Story of the Drummer, the ninth.

60.

The Birth Story of the Conch Blower

60.More DetailsCommentaries

Blow, blow, but do not over-blow, for over-blowing is evil;

The wealth obtained by blowing, my father squandered by blowing.

The Birth Story of the Conch Blower, the tenth.

The Chapter on Aspiration, the sixth.

Its summary:

As I Wished, So It Was, Water, Dry Land, Liquor, Sweet Fruit, and Unwavering Mind;

Gladdened Mind, Four and Three, Hundred Obtained, with Wealth and Riches - ten.

7.

The Chapter on Women

61.

The Birth Story of the Unpleasant Spell

61.More DetailsCommentaries

Women of the world are indeed wretched, no limit is found for them;

Filled with lust and bold, just as fire consumes all;

Having left them, I shall go forth, cultivating seclusion.

The Birth Story of the Unpleasant Spell, the first.

62.

The Birth Story of the Embryo

62.More DetailsCommentaries

Why the brahmin played the lute, with his face wrapped up;

A wife maintained from the egg-state, who would ever trust in such women?

The Birth Story of the Embryo, the second.

63.

The Birth Story of the Wise Reasoner

63.More DetailsCommentaries

Prone to wrath and ungrateful, divisive and friend-breaking;

Live the holy life, monk, he does not abandon happiness.

The Birth Story of the Wise Reasoner, the third.

64.

The Birth Story of the Difficult to Know

64.More DetailsCommentaries

Do not rejoice "She desires me", do not grieve "She does not desire me";

The nature of women is hard to know, like a fish's course in water.

The Birth Story of the Difficult to Know, the fourth.

65.

The Birth Story of Discontent

65.More DetailsCommentaries

Just as a river and a road, a drinking booth, an assembly hall, and a wayside water-shed;

So are women of the world, the wise do not become angry with them.

The Birth Story of Discontent, the fifth.

66.

The Birth Story of the Soft Characteristic

66.More DetailsCommentaries

One desire I had before, not having obtained Mudulakkhaṇā;

Since I obtained the wide-eyed one, desire gave birth to desire.

The Birth Story of the Soft Characteristic, the sixth.

67.

The Birth Story of the Lap

67.More DetailsCommentaries

"A son on my lap, O king, a husband for one running on the path;

But that region I do not see, from where I might bring a brother."

The Birth Story of the Lap, the seventh.

68.

The Birth Story of Sāketa

68.More DetailsCommentaries

In whom the mind settles, and the consciousness becomes clear;

Even in a person never seen before, one surely trusts in him.

The Birth Story of Sāketa, the eighth.

69.

The Birth Story of the One Who Vomits Poison

69.More DetailsCommentaries

Shame on that vomited poison, which I, for the sake of life;

Would swallow back again once vomited, death is better for me than life.

The Birth Story of the One Who Vomits Poison, the ninth.

70.

The Birth Story of the Spade

70.More DetailsCommentaries

That conquest is not well conquered, which conquest is undone;

That conquest is indeed well conquered, which conquest is not undone.

The Birth Story of the Spade, the tenth.

The Chapter on Women, the seventh.

Its summary:

Sikhī, All-Devourer, and Lute-Excellent, Divisive, Friend-Breaking, Delight, River;

Soft-Characteristic, Born-of-Same-Mother, and Mind, Poison, with Well-Conquered - these are ten.

8.

The Chapter on Varuṇa

71.

The Birth Story of Varuṇa

71.More DetailsCommentaries

"He who wishes to do afterwards what should be done before;

Like the breaker of varuṇa wood, he afterwards feels remorse."

The Birth Story of Varuṇa, the first.

72.

The Birth Story of the Virtuous Elephant

72.More DetailsCommentaries

For an ungrateful person, always looking for faults;

Even if one were to give him the whole earth, one would indeed not please him.

The Birth Story of the Virtuous Elephant, the second.

73.

The Birth Story of Truth Indeed

73.More DetailsCommentaries

"Truly indeed thus they said, some men here;

A piece of wood rescued is better, but not indeed some men."

The Birth Story of Truth Indeed, the third.

74.

The Birth Story of the Nature of Trees

74.More DetailsCommentaries

Good are many relatives, even trees born in the forest;

The wind carries away one standing alone, even a great lord of the forest.

The Birth Story of the Nature of Trees, the fourth.

75.

The Birth Story of the Fish

75.More DetailsCommentaries

Thunder forth, O Rain-God, destroy the treasure of the crow;

Afflict the crow with sorrow, and release me from sorrow.

The Birth Story of the Fish, the fifth.

76.

The Birth Story of the Unsuspected

76.More DetailsCommentaries

I am without fear in the village, in the forest there is no fear for me;

Having ascended the straight path, through friendliness and compassion.

The Birth Story of the Unsuspected, the sixth.

77.

The Birth Story of the Great Dream

77.More DetailsCommentaries

Bulls are trees, cows are oxen, a horse is a plate, a jackal is a water-pot;

A pond and unripe sandalwood, gourds sink and stones float.

Frogs swallow black snakes, supaṇṇas surround a crow;

Trembling wolves are in fear of goats, perversion exists, there is no sense here.

The Birth Story of the Great Dream, the seventh.

78.

The Birth Story of Illisa

78.More DetailsCommentaries

Both are lame, both are crippled, both are squint-eyed;

Boils have arisen on both, I do not see Illisa.

The Birth Story of Illisa, the eighth.

79.

The Birth Story of the Rough Voice

79.More DetailsCommentaries

When cattle were plundered and destroyed, houses burnt and people led away;

Then came the son to her whose son was destroyed, beating a harsh-sounding drum.

The Birth Story of the Rough Voice, the ninth.

80.

The Birth Story of Bhīmasena

80.More DetailsCommentaries

What you boasted of before, then afterwards your putrid streams flow forth;

Both do not agree, O Bhīmasena, your talk of battle and this your distress.

The Birth Story of Bhīmasena, the tenth.

The Chapter on Varuṇa, the eighth.

Its summary:

Varuṇa, Ungrateful, Excellent, Truth-Excellent, with Forest-Lord and Thundering;

With Compassion, Stone-Raft, Illisa, again with Drum and Putrid Stream - ten.

9.

The Chapter on Drinking

81.

The Birth Story of Drinking Liquor

81.More DetailsCommentaries

We drank, we danced, we sang, and we cried;

Having drunk that which causes unconsciousness, we were seen as monkeys.

The Birth Story of Drinking Liquor, the first.

82.

The Birth Story of Mittavindaka

82.More DetailsCommentaries

Having passed beyond the crystal, and the ever-intoxicating treacherous one;

You are seated on a stone, from which you will not be freed while living.

The Birth Story of Mittavindaka, the second.

83.

The Birth Story of Kālakaṇṇi

83.More DetailsCommentaries

One becomes a friend indeed by seven steps, but a companion by twelve;

By a month or a fortnight one becomes a relative, beyond that even like oneself;

How then could I, for the sake of my own happiness, abandon the wretch acquainted for a long time?

The Birth Story of Kālakaṇṇi is the third.

84.

The Birth Story of the Door to Welfare

84.More DetailsCommentaries

One should wish for health and supreme gain, morality approved by the seniors, and learning;

And acting in conformity with the Teaching, and non-sluggishness - these six are the chief doors to benefit.

The Birth Story of the Door to Welfare is the fourth.

85.

The Birth Story of the Kimpakka Fruit

85.More DetailsCommentaries

Not knowing the danger in the future, whoever indulges in sensual pleasures;

At the end of the result they strike him, like having eaten a poisonous fruit.

The Birth Story of the Kimpakka Fruit is the fifth.

86.

The Birth Story of the Morality Investigator

86.More DetailsCommentaries

Morality indeed is good, morality is unsurpassed in the world;

See the serpent with terrible poison, being moral he is not killed.

The Birth Story of the Morality Investigator is the sixth.

87.

The Birth Story of the Blessing

87.More DetailsCommentaries

For whom blessings have been uprooted, omens, dreams, and characteristics;

He, having transcended the faults of blessings, having overcome the pairs and bonds, surely does not come to this again.

The Birth Story of the Blessing is the seventh.

88.

The Birth Story of Rivalry

88.More DetailsCommentaries

One should utter only what is good, one should not utter what is evil;

Release of good speech is excellent, having uttered evil one is tormented.

The Birth Story of the Rivalry is the eighth.

89.

The Birth Story of the Deceitful One

89.More DetailsCommentaries

Your speech indeed was smooth, you speaker of kind words;

You clung to a mere blade of grass, yet they carry off a hundred gold coins.

The Birth Story of the Deceitful is the ninth.

90.

The Birth Story of the Ungrateful

90.More DetailsCommentaries

He who does not understand the good done for him before, the benefit done;

When a task arises afterwards, he does not find one to do it.

The Birth Story of the Ungrateful is the tenth.

The Apāyimha Chapter is the ninth.

Its summary:

We Drank and Treacherous, Positions of Beings, Six Doors and Future, and again;

Snake, Moral, Auspicious, Evil Woman, Hundred Coins, with Benefit Done Best - these are ten.

10.

The Chapter on Smeared

91.

The Birth Story of the Smeared

91.More DetailsCommentaries

"Smeared with supreme potency, the man does not understand the smearing he swallows;

Swallow, you, swallow, wicked cheat, afterwards it will be bitter for you."

The Birth Story of the Smeared is the first.

92.

The Birth Story of the Great Lake

92.More DetailsCommentaries

In superior situations they desire a hero, in councils one who is not excitable;

And a dear one when food and drink are present, and a wise person when a matter has arisen.

The Birth Story of the Great Lake is the second.

93.

The Birth Story of the Intimate Meal

93.More DetailsCommentaries

One should not trust the untrustworthy, nor should one trust even the trustworthy;

From trust, danger follows, like a lion follows a hoofed animal.

The Birth Story of the Intimate Meal is the third.

94.

The Birth Story of Terror

94.More DetailsCommentaries

Scorched and soaked, alone in the frightful forest;

Naked, not sitting by a fire, the sage devoted to the search.

The Birth Story of Terror is the fourth.

95.

The Birth Story of Mahāsudassana

95.More DetailsCommentaries

"Impermanent indeed are activities; their nature is to arise and fall.

Having arisen, they cease; their appeasement is blissful."

The Birth Story of Mahāsudassana is the fifth.

96.

The Birth Story of the Oil Bowl

96.More DetailsCommentaries

Just as one would carry a bowl of oil filled to the brim without spilling;

So one should guard one's own mind, aspiring to the direction never gone to before.

The Birth Story of the Oil Bowl is the sixth.

97.

The Birth Story of Success by Name

97.More DetailsCommentaries

Having seen Jīvaka dead, and Dhanapāli in misery;

And Panthaka lost in the forest, the evil one returned again.

The Birth Story of Success by Name is the seventh.

98.

The Birth Story of the Dishonest Trader

98.More DetailsCommentaries

Good indeed is a wise one, but not one too clever;

By a son too clever, I have been singed in my mind.

The Birth Story of the Dishonest Trader is the eighth.

99.

The Birth Story of More Than a Thousand

99.More DetailsCommentaries

Even if more than a thousand were assembled, they might cry for a hundred years, those without wisdom;

Better is one person with wisdom, who cognises the meaning of what is spoken.

The Birth Story of More Than a Thousand is the ninth.

100.

The Birth Story of the Unpleasant Form

100.More DetailsCommentaries

The unpleasurable in the guise of the pleasurable, the unlovely in the guise of the lovely;

Suffering in the guise of happiness, overcomes the heedless one.

The Birth Story of the Unpleasant Form is the tenth.

The Litta Chapter is the tenth.

Its summary:

Sick, contempt, curiosity, mother's debt, by the sage and impermanence, the excellent bowl;

Dhanapāli, the excellent, the too clever, with more than a thousand, the unpleasant, ten.

The Middle Fifty.

11.

The Chapter on More Than a Hundred

101.

The Birth Story of More Than a Hundred

101.More DetailsCommentaries

Even if more than a hundred were assembled, they might meditate for a hundred years, those without wisdom;

Better is one person with wisdom, who cognises the meaning of what is spoken.

The Birth Story of More Than a Hundred is the first.

102.

The Birth Story of the Green-Grocer

102.More DetailsCommentaries

He who would be a shelter for one touched by suffering, my father, commits treachery in the forest;

To whom shall I cry out in the midst of the forest, he who was my protector commits violence.

The Birth Story of the Green-Grocer is the second.

103.

The Birth Story of the Enemy

103.More DetailsCommentaries

Where an enemy dwells, a wise one should not dwell there;

For one night or two nights, one who has enemies dwells in suffering.

The Birth Story of the Enemy is the third.

104.

The Birth Story of Mittavindaka

104.More DetailsCommentaries

With four he attained eight, and with eight also sixteen;

And with sixteen thirty-two, through excessive greed he encountered the wheel;

For the man destroyed by desire, the wheel revolves upon his head.

The Birth Story of Mittavindaka is the fourth.

105.

The Birth Story of the Weak Wood

105.More DetailsCommentaries

Much is this wood in the forest, the wind breaks the weak;

If you fear that, O noble one, surely you will become lean.

The Birth Story of the Weak Wood is the fifth.

106.

The Birth Story of the Water-Drawer

106.More DetailsCommentaries

"Happy indeed me living, tormenting like a water-pot;

A thief, under the guise of wife, requests oil and salt."

The Birth Story of the Water-Drawer is the sixth.

107.

The Birth Story of Sālittaka

107.More DetailsCommentaries

Good indeed is a craft, whatever kind it may be;

See, by the lame one's blow, villages in the four directions were obtained.

The Birth Story of Sālittaka is the seventh.

108.

The Birth Story of Bāhiya

108.More DetailsCommentaries

One should train in what should be trained, there are people with desire for that;

For a woman from the countryside, through good conduct, pleased the king.

The Birth Story of Bāhiya is the eighth.

109.

The Birth Story of the Kuṇḍa Cake

109.More DetailsCommentaries

As is the food of the man, so is the food of his deity;

Bring that cake made of husked grain, do not destroy my share.

The Birth Story of the Kuṇḍa Cake is the ninth.

110.

The Birth Story of Sabbasaṃhārakapañha

110.More DetailsCommentaries

There is no all-compiler, pure millet diffuses its fragrance;

The cheat fears falsehood, the old woman spoke truth.

The Birth Story of Sabbasaṃhārakapañha is the tenth.

The Parosata Chapter is the eleventh.

Its summary:

More Than A Hundred, Protected, Enemy, Again, Whirling Wheel, and Named Nāgasiri;

Happiness, and Indeed, Craftsman, Bāhiyā, Kuṇḍa Cake, and Old Woman - these are ten.

12.

The Chapter on "If Indeed"

111.

The Birth Story of Gadrabhapañha

111.More DetailsCommentaries

If you think thus, O foremost king, that a father is better than a son;

Well then, here is your mule, for the father of a mule is a donkey.

The Birth Story of Gadrabhapañha is the first.

112.

The Birth Story of Amarādevīpañha

112.More DetailsCommentaries

By which there is flour and vinegar, and the double-leaved tree in bloom;

By which I give, by that I speak; by which I do not give, by that I do not speak;

This is the path of the barley-middler, know this as the concealed way.

The Birth Story of Amarādevīpañha is the second.

113.

The Birth Story of Siṅgāla

113.More DetailsCommentaries

Do you believe the jackal, the one who has drunk liquor, brahmin?

There is not a hundred oyster shells, whence then two hundred bronze plates?

The Birth Story of Siṅgāla is the third.

114.

The Birth Story of Mitacinti

114.More DetailsCommentaries

Much-Thinker and Little-Thinker, both were caught in the net;

Measured-Thinker released them, both there came together.

The Birth Story of Mitacinti is the fourth.

115.

The Birth Story of Anusāsika

115.More DetailsCommentaries

She who instructs others, herself being one who acts with greed;

She now lies with broken wings, the instructing bird destroyed by a wheel.

The Birth Story of Anusāsika is the fifth.

116.

The Birth Story of Dubbaca

116.More DetailsCommentaries

Teacher, you have done an excessive deed, even to me this is not pleasing;

Having leaped over the fourth, you are now enveloped by the fifth.

The Birth Story of Dubbaca is the sixth.

117.

The Birth Story of Tittira

117.More DetailsCommentaries

Too lofty and too talkative, spoken for too long a time;

Speech kills the fool, as excessive rain does the partridge.

The Birth Story of Tittira is the seventh.

118.

The Birth Story of Vaṭṭaka

118.More DetailsCommentaries

A person who does not think, does not attain distinction;

See the fruit of thinking, I am freed from murder and bondage.

The Birth Story of Vaṭṭaka is the eighth.

119.

The Birth Story of Akālarāvi

119.More DetailsCommentaries

Not brought up by mother and father, dwelling in a family without a teacher;

This cock does not directly know the proper time or the improper time.

The Birth Story of Akālarāvi is the ninth.

120.

The Birth Story of Bandhanamokkha

120.More DetailsCommentaries

The unbound are bound there, where fools speak out;

Even the bound are freed there, where the wise speak out.

The Birth Story of Bandhanamokkha is the tenth.

The Haṃci Chapter is the twelfth.

Its summary:

Then donkey, flour, hundred plates, much-thinking, hare, going, over-acting;

Protracted time, distinction, mind, teacher, with wise-speaking-delight - these are ten.

13.

The Chapter on the Grass Reed

121.

The Birth Story of Kusanāḷi

121.More DetailsCommentaries

Whether an equal would do it, or also one who is superior, or even an inferior one alone would do it;

These would do the highest good in disaster, just as I and Kusanāḷi did for Rucā."

The Birth Story of Kusanāḷi is the first.

122.

The Birth Story of Dummedha

122.More DetailsCommentaries

Having obtained fame, the imprudent one works for his own harm;

He proceeds towards the injury of himself and others.

The Birth Story of Dummedha is the second.

123.

The Birth Story of Naṅgalīsa

123.More DetailsCommentaries

The fool speaks everywhere speech that does not apply everywhere;

This one knew neither curds nor the plough-pole, he imagines curds and milk to be the plough-pole.

The Birth Story of Naṅgalīsa is the third.

124.

The Birth Story of Amba

124.More DetailsCommentaries

A person should indeed strive, a wise one should not become weary;

See the fruit of effort, the mangoes eaten are not based on hearsay.

The Birth Story of Amba is the fourth.

125.

The Birth Story of Kaṭāhaka

125.More DetailsCommentaries

Even though he might boast much, having gone to another country;

Having followed, he would ruin him, enjoy your wealth, Kaṭāhaka."

The Birth Story of Kaṭāhaka is the fifth.

126.

The Birth Story of Asilakkhaṇa

126.More DetailsCommentaries

That same thing is good for one, that same thing is evil for another;

Therefore not all is good, nor also is all evil.

The Birth Story of Asilakkhaṇa is the sixth.

127.

The Birth Story of Kalaṇḍuka

127.More DetailsCommentaries

Those regions, those sites, and I am a forest-dweller;

Having found out, they would seize you, drink the milk, Kalanduka."

The Birth Story of Kalaṇḍuka is the seventh.

128.

The Birth Story of Biḷāravata

128.More DetailsCommentaries

He who indeed, having made the Teaching his banner, concealed, would practise evil;

Having gained the trust of beings, they call that one's practice the cat's practice.

The Birth Story of Biḷāravata is the eighth.

129.

The Birth Story of Aggikabhāradvāja

129.More DetailsCommentaries

This topknot is not for the sake of merit, this topknot is for the sake of food;

It does not go to the counting of thumbs, let that be enough for you, Aggikā.

The Birth Story of Aggikabhāradvāja is the ninth.

130.

The Birth Story of Kosiya

130.More DetailsCommentaries

Eat according to your speech, and speak according to what you have eaten;

Both do not agree for you, your speech and what you have eaten, Kosiya.

The Birth Story of Kosiya is the tenth.

The Kusanāḷi Chapter is the thirteenth.

Its summary:

Kusanāḷi, Siri by name, and Fame, Curds, Mango, with Cauldron as the fifth;

Then Evil, Milk, Cat's Vow, Peacock, with Kosiya by name - these are ten.

14.

The Chapter on Not Giving

131.

The Birth Story of Asampadāna

131.More DetailsCommentaries

For one who does not give to any whatsoever, for a fool, friendships become misfortune;

Therefore I take the abundant half-measure, may my friendship not be lost forever.

The Birth Story of Asampadāna is the first.

132.

The Birth Story of Bhīruka

132.More DetailsCommentaries

Through firm resolution in wholesome instruction, and through fearlessness and courage without turning back;

We did not come under the control of the ogresses, that safety of mine came through great fear.

The Birth Story of Bhīruka is the second.

133.

The Birth Story of Ghatāsana

133.More DetailsCommentaries

Where there was security, there an enemy has arisen, in the midst of the water the ghee-eater blazes;

Today there is no dwelling on the earth in the tree, seek the directions, from the refuge today fear has arisen for us.

The Birth Story of Ghatāsana is the third.

134.

The Birth Story of Jhānasodhana

134.More DetailsCommentaries

Whatever beings are conscious, they too are ill-fated, and whatever beings are unconscious, they too are ill-fated;

Having avoided both of these, that attainment-happiness is without blemish.

The Birth Story of Jhānasodhana is the fourth.

135.

The Birth Story of Candābha

135.More DetailsCommentaries

Whoever here stands fast with wisdom in the radiance of the moon and the radiance of the sun,

With meditative absorption without applied thought, becomes one who reaches the radiant realm.

The Birth Story of Candābha is the fifth.

136.

The Birth Story of the Golden Swan

136.More DetailsCommentaries

One should be satisfied with what is obtained, for excessive greed is evil;

Having seized the king of swans, you have fallen away from the gold.

The Birth Story of Suvaṇṇahaṃsa is the sixth.

137.

The Birth Story of the Cat

137.More DetailsCommentaries

Where one cat obtains, a second arises there;

And a third and a fourth, this is the den of those cats.

The Birth Story of the Cat is the seventh.

138.

The Birth Story of the Iguana

138.More DetailsCommentaries

What is the use of your matted hair, O imprudent one, what is the use of your garment of skin?

Within you is a thicket, yet you polish the outside.

The Birth Story of the Iguana is the eighth.

139.

The Birth Story of the Fallen on Both Sides

139.More DetailsCommentaries

The dice broken, the cloth lost, and a quarrel at the friend's house;

Activities ruined on both sides, in water and on land.

The Birth Story of the Fallen on Both Sides is the ninth.

140.

The Birth Story of the Crow

140.More DetailsCommentaries

Always with agitated hearts, vexing the whole world;

Therefore there is no power for them, our relatives the crows.

The Birth Story of the Crow is the tenth.

The Non-Giving Chapter is the fourteenth.

Its summary:

Whatsoever, Ogress, Khemiya, and with More Than A Hundred Questions, Radiant again;

Then Swan, Excellent, Best, Cat, Matted Hair, Fallen, Eight, with Crow King - ten.

15.

The Chapter on the Lizard

141.

The Birth Story of the Iguana

141.More DetailsCommentaries

One who associates with evil people does not gain perpetual happiness;

Like a chameleon with an iguana family, he brings misfortune upon himself.

The Birth Story of the Iguana is the first.

142.

The Birth Story of Siṅgāla

142.More DetailsCommentaries

This indeed is difficult for you to understand, that you lie like one dead;

When you are being dragged, the stick is not released from your hand.

The Birth Story of the Jackal is the second.

143.

The Birth Story of Viroca

143.More DetailsCommentaries

Your brain has come out, and your head is split open;

All your ribs are broken, today indeed you shine.

The Birth Story of Viroca is the third.

144.

The Birth Story of the Tail

144.More DetailsCommentaries

"Much is this for the unvirtuous, O fire, that we honour you with a tail;

For one deserving meat there is no meat today, may the venerable one accept even the tail."

The Birth Story of the Tail is the fourth.

145.

The Birth Story of Rādha

145.More DetailsCommentaries

You do not understand, Rādha, midnight has not yet come;

You talk nonsense, Kosiyāyanī is dispassionate.

The Birth Story of Rādha is the fifth.

146.

The Birth Story of the Sea Crow

146.More DetailsCommentaries

Are our jaws wearied, and does the mouth dry up?

We draw from this side but do not reach the other, the great ocean just keeps filling up.

The Birth Story of the Sea Crow is the sixth.

147.

The Birth Story of the Red Flower

147.More DetailsCommentaries

This is not suffering, that is suffering, that a crow pecks at me;

That my dark-skinned wife, in flower-red garments, will not enjoy the Kattika festival.

The Birth Story of the Red Flower is the seventh.

148.

The Birth Story of Siṅgāla

148.More DetailsCommentaries

Not again, and not again, and also not again and again;

Will I enter the elephant's body, for thus I am frightened by fear.

The Birth Story of the Jackal is the eighth.

149.

The Birth Story of the Single Leaf

149.More DetailsCommentaries

This tree has but a single leaf, not four inches from the ground;

With fruit like poison, what will it become when it is great?

The Birth Story of the Single Leaf is the ninth.

150.

The Birth Story of Sañjīva

150.More DetailsCommentaries

Whoever encourages the wicked, and associates with the wicked;

He makes himself their food, just as the tiger did to Sañjīvaka.

The Birth Story of Sañjīva is the tenth.

The Chameleon Chapter is the fifteenth.

Its summary:

Thrives in Happiness, Excellent Stick, and again, Shone, Tail, Fifth, Excellent Chariot;

Ocean, Kattika, Body, again, with Four Inches and Excellent Tiger - ten.

(The Upper Fifty.)

Then the chapter summary:

Incontrovertible Ground, Morality Chapter, Antelope, Nest, with Welfare-Desiring as fifth;

Blessing, Woman, Varuṇa, Drank, with Smeared Chapter - these are ten;

More Than a Hundred, If, Kusanāḷi, Lack of Accomplishment, Chameleon Chapter.

Thus ends the One-Verse Collection.

The One-Verse Collection is concluded.

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