| J.061 |
Aasaatamanta Jaataka | Asaatamanta Jaataka |
The bodhisatva was once a famous teacher in Takkasila. A young brahmin of Benares
came to study under him and completing the course, went back home. His mother, however,
was anxious that he should renounce the world and tend Aggibhagava in the forest.
She accordingly sent him back to his teacher that he might learn the ëasatamantaí
(dolour text). The teacher had a mother aged 120 years on whom he himself waited.
When the youth came back to learn the asatamanta, he was asked to look after the
old woman. She, falling in love with him, hatched a plot to kill her son. The bodhisatva,
having been told of the plot, made a wooden figure and placed it in his bed. The
mother, thinking to kill her son, struck it with an axe, and discovering that she
had been betrayed, fell down dead. The youth, having learned the asatamanta, returned
to his parents and became a hermit. Kapilani was the mother in the story, Maha Kassapa
the father and Ananda the pupil. This story, together with the ummadanti Jataka was
related to a passion-tossed monk to warn him of the evil nature of women. |
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Jaataka |
Khuddhaka |
J.i.285ff. |
women, passion |