Jātaka Tales: Selected and Edited with Introduction and Notes |
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Aesop ascetic asked Bharhut bird Bodhi Bodhisatta was born Brahmadatta was reigning brahmin brother brought buddhist chariot charm courtiers cried crow daughter dead dear death dogs dream drink dwelt elephant eyes fables father fear fell fish forest frame story fruit gave gildmaster give goat goblin hand head hearing Himalaya husband India jackal Jāt Jātaka Kamsa kill king of Benares king's kingdom Kosala Kusa Kusavati lion lived lord Mahābhārata mango monkeys mother nāgas Once Osprey Pabhāvati pacceka buddha palace Pāli Panchatantra priest prince queen reigning in Benares repeated this stanza replied rice royal sage Sakka saying second stanza seized Senaka sent shew sire snake spoke stanza stood story Stupa tale tell thee thief thou thought thousand pieces told took treasure tree uttered variant village wife wise woman words Yakkha young
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Page 60 - But, bold as a lion, the self-reliant Bodhisatta pressed on, till in the heart of the forest he came on the ogre. The monster made himself appear in stature as tall as a palm-tree, with a head as big as an arbour and huge eyes like bowls, with two tusks like turnips and the beak of a hawk; his belly was blotched with purple; and the palms of his hands and the soles of his feet were blue-black! "Whither away?" cried the monster. "Halt! you are my prey.
Page 265 - Brethren, he is not keeping bad company for the first time," and told an old tale. One« upon a time when Brahmadatta was reigning in Benares, the Bodhisatta was a lion and living with a lioness had two children, a son and a daughter.
Page 223 - And when the wedding day was come, The king commanded strait The noblemen both all and some Upon the queene to wait. And she behaved herself that day, As if she had never walkt the way ; She had forgot her gowne of gray, Which she did weare of late. The proverbe old is come to passe, The priest, when he begins his masse, Forgets that ever clerke he was ; He knowth not his estate.
Page 115 - Once on a time when Brahmadatta was reigning in Benares, the Bodhisatta came to life again as a squire.
Page 134 - Once upon a time, when Brahmadatta was king of Benares, there was a village of carpenters not far from the city, in which five hundred carpenters lived. They would go up the river in a vessel, and enter the forest, where they would shape beams and planks for housebuilding, and put together the framework of one-storey...
Page 62 - I have no fear." (By this, it is said, the Bodhisatta meant the Sword of Knowledge, which was within him.) Hereon, the ogre fell a-thinking. "This young brahmin is speaking the truth and nothing but the truth," thought he. "Not a morsel so big as a pea could I digest of such a hero. I'll let him go.
Page 32 - Once upon a time, when Brahmadatta was King of Benares, the Bodhisatta was born as son of his chief queen. On his name-day they asked 800 Brahmans, having satisfied them with all their desires, about his lucky marks. The Brahmans who had skill in divining from such marks beheld the excellence of his, and made answer : "Full of goodness, great King, is your son, and when you die...
Page 110 - Well, my ears are indebted to the cripple for this relief," said the king, and bestowed on him four villages, one in the North, one in the South, one in the West, and one in the East, producing a hundred thousand a year.
Page 86 - ... carrying water in pipkins and pouring it into the full pitcher. And the water overflowed and ran away. But none the less they still kept on pouring more and more water into the overflowing vessel, without a single man giving so much as a glance at the empty pitchers. This was my eighth dream. What shall come of it?" "This dream too shall not have it.s fulfilment until the future. For in days to come the world shall decay ; the kingdom shall grow weak, its kings shall grow poor and niggardly ;...
Page 179 - Yes, I can do that," says he: "take me along!" So they made the tortoise hold a stick between his teeth ; and themselves taking hold so of the two ends, they sprang up into the air. The village children saw this, and exclaimed, " There are two geese carrying a tortoise by a stick ! " [By this time the geese, flying swiftly, had arrived at the space above the palace of the King, at Benares.] The tortoise wanted to cry out, " Well, and if my friends do carry me, what is that to you...