| J.263 |
Cullapalobhana Jaataka |
The bodhisatva once left the Brahma-world and was born as the son of the Benares
king, but would have nothing to do with women. When he grew up, his father was filled
with despair -- until a dancing-girl offered to seduce the prince. She sang outside
the prince’s door until he was filled with desire. Eventually he came to know the
joys of love, and filled with madness, ran amok through the streets, chasing people.
The king banished both the prince and his seducer and they went to live in a hut
away down the Ganges. One day a hermit visited the hut and, seeing the woman, lost
his power of flying through the air. When he saw the bodhisatva, he ran away and
fell in the sea. The bodhisatva, realizing his plight, told him of the wiles of women
and helped him to regain his lost power, while he himself sent the woman back to
the haunts of man and became an ascetic. The story is told in reference to a backsliding
monk. |
58/108 |
Jaataka |
Khuddhaka |
J.ii.328ff. |
woman, seduction |