| J.301 |
Cullakaali"nga Jaataka |
Kalinga, king of Dantapura, anxious to make a fight, sent his four daughters of surpassing
beauty into every kingdom, offering them to any man who would fight for them. Assaka,
king of Potali, with the advice of his minister Nandisena, accepted the challenge.
Kalinga thereupon came with his mighty army, and the bodhisatva, who was an ascetic
declared, after consultation with Sakka, that the victory would be his. Nandisena,
however, instructed Assaka as to how he should kill the tutelary deity of Kalinga,
when this deity, in the disguise of a white bull, should appear on the battlefield.
Nandisena led the attack of the soldiers, the white bull was killed and Kalinga defeated.
He had to provide dowries for his daughters and thenceforth the two kings lived as
friends. The story was related in reference to Sariputta who is identified with Nandisena.
Two Jains, man and woman, each versed in 500 theses, met in Vesali and the Licchavis
arranged a marriage between them. They had one son, Saccaka and four daughters, Sacca,
Lola, Avavadaka and Patacara. After the death of their parents, the girls wandered
from city to city for the purposes of disputation. They came at last to Savatthi,
where they set up at the city gate a jambu-tree to be pulled up by anyone accepting
their challenge to a discussion. Sariputta, seeing the branch, had it removed, and
when the girls came to him with a great crowd of people, answered all their questions
and defeated them in debate. Thereupon they entered the order under Uppalavanna and
the fame of Sariputta increased. |
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J.iii.001ff. |
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