| J.330 |
Siilaviima.msa Jaataka |
The bodhisatva was once chaplain to the king of Benares, later becoming an ascetic.
One day he saw a hawk, attacked by other birds, drop a piece of meat he had stolen.
On another day he saw a slave girl, Pingala, stood up by her lover. On a third occasion
he saw a hermit meditating. Drawing a moral from these incidents, he lived the hermit
life and was reborn in the Brahma-world. The Jataka was told in reference to a brahmin
who was ever proving his virtue. |
58/583 |
Jaataka |
Khuddhaka |
J.iii.100ff. |
passion, renunciation |