| J.417 |
Kaccaani Jaataka |
A young man devoted himself, after his fatherís death, entirely to his mother, till
the later, much against his will, brought him a wife. The wife plotted to estrange
mother and son, and the old woman had to leave the house. The wife, having given
birth to a son, went about saying that if the mother-in-law had been with her, such
a blessing would have been impossible. When the old woman heard of this, she felt
that such words showed that Dhamma must be dead. The woman went to a ceremony and
started to perform a rite in the memory of the dead Dhamma. Sakkaís throne became
heated and hearing her story used his powers to reconcile the old woman with her
son and daughter-in-law. The story was related to a young man of Savatthi who looked
after his aged mother till his wife came. The wife helped to look after her mother
in law at first, but later grew jealous of her husbandís love for his mother and
contrived to make the son angry with his mother. Finally she asked the man to choose
between herself and his mother. The young man, without hesitation stood up for his
mother and the wife, realizing her folly, mended her ways. |
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Jaataka |
Khuddhaka |
J.iii.422ff. |
filial piety |