| J.150 |
Sa~njiiva Jaataka |
The bodhisatva was a famous teacher in Benares and among his pupils was a young brahmin
called Sa~njiva who was taught a spell for raising the dead, but not the counter
spell. One day he went with his companions to the forest and they came across a dead
tiger. He uttered the charm and restored it to life. The tiger instantly killed him
and fell down dead again. The story was told in reference to Ajatasattu after his
visit to the Buddha. The Buddha said that had it not been for his crime of parricide,
he would have become a sotapanna, but because of his association with Devadatta,
he had committed numerous bad deeds and shut himself out from the possibility. Sa~njiva
is identified with Ajatasattu. |
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