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Index Jataka Stories: no. 101 - 150

Index Jataka Stories

Summary:

Index Jataka Stories:

no. 101 - 150

translated for Pali into English by

Robert Chalmers

edited by

E. B. Cowell

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Jataka 101 - 110

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  • ==== 11. Parosatavaggo ====

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Occasion: not avaliable in English. Story: A brahmin dies and states his spiritual attainments in a formula which only one of his pupils understands.

Occasion: not avaliable in English. Story: To test his daughter's virtue, a man makes love to her.

Occasion: not avaliable in English. Story: A merchant rejoices that he has outstripped robbers and reached his home in safety.

Occasion: not avaliable in English. Story: An additional fragment of No. 41.

Occasion: not avaliable in English. Story: An elephant, having escaped from the trainer's goad, lives in constant dread.

Occasion: not avaliable in English. Story: A young hermit, seduced by a girl, is disenchanted by the number of errands she makes him run.

Occasion: not avaliable in English. Story: A skilful marksman reduces a talkative brahmin to silence by flicking pellets of goat's dung down the latter's throat.

Occasion: not avaliable in English. Story: Occasional decency a passport to greatness.

Occasion: not avaliable in English. Story: A Tree-sprite, whose worshipper feared his gift was too mean, asks for the gift and rewards the poor man by revealing the site of a buried hoard of money.

Occasion: not avaliable in English. Story: 0

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Jataka 111 - 120

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Occasion: not avaliable in English. Story: 0

Occasion: not avaliable in English. Story: 0

Occasion: not avaliable in English. Story: Being belated in a city, a jackal, by a lying promise to reveal buried treasure, induces a brahmin to carry him safely out of the city. The greedy brahmin reaps only indignities from the ungrateful beast.

Occasion: not avaliable in English. Story: Of three fishes, two through folly are caught in a net; the third and wiser fish rescues them.

Occasion: not avaliable in English. Story: A greedy bird, after cunningly warning other birds against the dangers of the high road on which she found food, is herself crushed to death by a carriage on that road.

Occasion: not avaliable in English. Story: Being in liquor, an acrobat undertakes to jump more javelins than he can manage, and is killed.

Occasion: not avaliable in English. Story: A busybody is killed for his chatter by a jaundiced man; and the piping of a partridge attracts the hunter who kills it.

Occasion: not avaliable in English. Story: A quail, being caught by a fowler, starves itself till no one will buy it, and in the end escapes.

Occasion: not avaliable in English. Story: A cock which crowed in and out of season has its neck wrung.

Occasion: not avaliable in English. Story: A queen, who had committed adultery with sixty-four footmen and failed in her overtures to the chaplain, accuses the latter of rape. He reveals her guilt and his own innocence.

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Jataka 121 - 130

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  • ==== 13. Kusanāḷivaggo ====

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Occasion: not avaliable in English. Story: A grass-sprite and a tree-sprite are friends. The former saves the latter's tree from the axe by assuming the shape of a chameleon and making the tree look full of holes.

Occasion: not avaliable in English. Story: Being jealous of his elephant, a king seeks to make it fall over a precipice. The elephant flies through the air with its mahout to another and more appreciative master.

Occasion: not avaliable in English. Story: A stupid youth, being devoted to his teacher, props up the latter's bed with his own leg all night long. The grateful teacher yearns to instruct the dullard and tries to make him compare things together. The youth sees a likeness to the shaft of a plough in a snake, an elephant, sugar-cane and curds. The teacher abandons all hope.

Occasion: not avaliable in English. Story: In time of drought, a hermit provides water for the animals, who in gratitude bring him fruit enough for himself and 500 others.

Occasion: not avaliable in English. Story: A slave, educated beyond his station, manages by forging his master's name to marry a rich wife in another city. He gives himself airs till his old master comes, who, while not betraying the slave, teaches the wife verses whereby to restrain her husband's arrogance.

Occasion: not avaliable in English. Story: Effects of two sneezes. One lost a sword-tester his nose, whilst the other won a princess for her lover.

Occasion: not avaliable in English. Story: A slave like the one in No. 125 is rebuked for arrogance to his wife by a parrot who knew him at home, The slave is recaptured.

Occasion: not avaliable in English. Story: A jackal, under guise of saintliness, eats rats belonging to a troop with which he consorts. His treachery is discovered and avenged.

Occasion: not avaliable in English. Story: A similar story about rats and a jackal whose hair had all been burnt off except a top-knot which suggested holiness.

Occasion: not avaliable in English. Story: The alternative of the stick or a draught of nauseous filth cures a wife of feigned illness.

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Jataka 131 - 140

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  • ==== 14. Asampadānavaggo ====

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Occasion: not avaliable in English. Story: A benefactor is repulsed by the man he had befriended. Hearing of this ingratitude, the king gives all the ingrate's wealth to the benefactor, who refuses to take back more than his own.

Occasion: not avaliable in English. Story: Like No. 96. The king is thankful to have passed through great perils to great dominion.

Occasion: not avaliable in English. Story: Because the waters of his lake were befouled by birds roosting in an overhanging tree, a Naga darts flames among the boughs. The wise birds fly away; the foolish stay and are killed.

Occasion: not avaliable in English. Story: Like No. 99.

Occasion: not avaliable in English. Story: Like No. 99.

Occasion: not avaliable in English. Story: The father of a family dies, leaving his family destitute. Being reborn a bird with golden plumage, and discovering the condition of his family, the father gives them a feather at a time to sell. The widow in her greed plucks all his feathers out, only to find that they are gold no more.

Occasion: not avaliable in English. Story: A mouse caught by successive cats buys them off by daily rations of meat. In the end, the mouse, ensconced in crystal, defies the cats, who dash themselves to pieces against the unseen crystal.

Occasion: not avaliable in English. Story: A hermit tries in vain to catch a lizard to eat.

Occasion: not avaliable in English. Story: A fisherman, having hooked a snag, and thinking it a monster fish, wishes to keep it all to himself. How he lost his clothes and his eyes, and how his wife was beaten and fined.

Occasion: not avaliable in English. Story: A wanton crow having befouled the king's chaplain, the latter prescribes crows' fat for the burns of the king's elephants. The leader of the crows explains to the king that crows have no fat and that revenge alone prompted the chaplain's prescription.

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Jataka 141 - 150

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  • ==== 15. Kakaṇṭakavaggo ====

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Occasion: not avaliable in English. Story: A chameleon betrays a tribe of iguanas to a hunter.

Occasion: not avaliable in English. Story: In order to catch a jackal, a man pretends to be dead. To try him, the jackal tugs at the man's stick and finds his grip tighten.

Occasion: not avaliable in English. Story: A jackal, after attending a lion in the chase, imagines he can kill a quarry as well as the lion. In essaying to kill an elephant, the jackal is killed.

Occasion: not avaliable in English. Story: A votary of the God of Fire, having a cow to sacrifice to his deity, finds that robbers have driven it off. If the god, he reflects, cannot look after his own sacrifice, how shall he protect his votary?

Occasion: not avaliable in English. Story: A brahmin asks two parrots to keep an eye on his wife during his absence. They observe her misconduct and report it to the brahmin, without essaying the hopeless task of restraining her.

Occasion: not avaliable in English. Story: A hen crow having been drowned in the sea, other crows try to bale the sea out with their beaks.

Occasion: not avaliable in English. Story: In order to have smart holiday attire, a wife makes her husband break into the royal conservatories. Being caught and impaled, he has only the one grief that his wife will not have her flowers to wear.

Occasion: not avaliable in English. Story: A jackal eats his way into a dead elephant's carcass and cannot get out.

Occasion: not avaliable in English. Story: By the analogy of a poisonous seedling, a wicked prince is reformed.

Occasion: not avaliable in English. Story: A youth, who has learnt the charm for restoring the dead to life, tries it on a tiger, with fatal effects to himself.


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