| J.498 |
Cittasambhuuta Jaataka |
The bodhisatva was once born as an untouchable in Ujjeni. He was called Citta and
his brother, Sambhuta. One day, when they were out sweeping, two rich women on their
way to the park noticed them and turned back. Their followers, disappointed at their
loss of a picnic, beat the two untouchables. Later the two brothers went to Takkasila
to study. Citta became very proficient and was sent one day, instead of his teacher,
to the house of a villager who had invited the teacher and his pupils. When they
were there, in a moment of forgetfulness, the brothers used the Candala dialect,
and having disclosed their caste, were driven out of Takkasila. In their next birth
they became does and subsequently ospreys. They were always together and met their
death together. Later Citta was born as the son of the chaplain of Kosambhi and Sambhuta
as the son of the king of Uttarapa~ncala. Citta became an ascetic at the age of sixteen
and remembered his previous births. He waited until Sambhuta had reigned for fifty
years and knowing that he also had the power to recollect previous existences, taught
a stanza to a boy and sent him to recite it before the king. Sambhuta heard the stanza,
remembered his brother, and after inquiry, visited Citta, who had then gone to the
royal park. There Citta gave him counsel and not long afterwards, Sambhuta too, renounced
the world. After death, they were both born in the brahma world. Ananda is identified
with Sambhuta. The story was told in reference to two monks, colleagues of Mahakassapa,
who were greatly devoted to each other. |
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Jaataka |
Khuddhaka |
J.iv.390ff. |
loyalty |