| J.201 |
Bandhanaagaara Jaataka |
The bodhisatva was once born in a poor family and supported his mother. Having provided
him with a wife, much against his will, she died soon afterwards. When his wife was
pregnant, he wished to renounce the world and become an ascetic, but his wife persuaded
him to wait. On her second conception, he ran away and, becoming an ascetic, rejoiced
in his freedom from the bonds of his wife and his family. The Jataka was related
when some monks reported to the Buddha that a gang of thieves had been taken captive
by Pasenadi and put in chains. No chains were stronger than those of passion, said
the Buddha. |
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Jaataka |
Khuddhaka |
J.ii.139ff. |
renunciation, non-provarication |