| J.459 |
Paaniiya Jaataka |
The story of how six persons became paccekabuddhas by feeling remorse for sins committed
and by developing supernatural insight. The Jataka derives its name from the first
of these, who was a villager in Kasi. He went with his friend to the fields each
carrying a flask of water. From time to time they drank, but the first drank out
of the other’s flask, wishing to save the water in his own. In the evening, remorse
seized him, and as he stood reflecting on his wickedness, he became a paccekabuddha.
The paccekabuddhas met at Mandamulapabbhara and together visited the king of Benares
who was the bodhisatva. On hearing their stories, he renounced the world, and, in
spite of the efforts of his consort to stop him, became an ascetic. The story was
related in reference to five-hundred householders of Savatthi who became monks. They
lived in the monastery but indulged in thoughts of sin. The Buddha sent Ananda to
summon them saying that no matter how small a sin it was, it must be checked. The
queen consort of the story was Rahulamata. |
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Khuddhaka |
J.iv.113ff. |
unwholesomeness leading to wholesomeness |