Francis H.T. & Neil R.A. (translators)

The Jataka, Volume III, tr. by H.T. Francis and R.A. Neil, ed. E. B. Cowell. 1897

This is volume three of six of the complete Jataka translation edited by E.B. Cowell. The Jataka is the treasury of tales of the past lives of the Buddha.

THE JĀTAKA

OR

STORIES OF THE BUDDHA'S FORMER BIRTHS.

TRANSLATED FROM THE PĀLI BY VARIOUS HANDS

UNDER THE EDITORSHIP OF

PROFESSOR E. B. COWELL.

VOL. III.

TRANSLATED BY

H. T. FRANCIS, M.A.,

LATE FELLOW OF GONVILLE AND CAIDS COLLEGE,

AND

R. A. NEIL, M.A.,

FELLOW OF PEMBROKE COLLEGE.

LONDON

PUBLISHED FOR THE PALI TEXT SOCIETY

BY

LUZAC & COMPANY, LTD.

46 GREAT RUSSELL STREET, W.C. 1

[1897]

First published by The Cambridge University

Press…1897

TO

THE HON. V. FAUSBOLL

WHO FOR MORE THAN TWENTY YEARS

HAS SHEWN UNWEARIED ENERGY IN PUBLISHING

THE EDITIO PRINCEPS OF THE PĀLI JĀTAKA

THIS THIRD VOLUME IS GRATEFULLY DEDICATED

BY THE TRANSLATORS.

Published in Commemoration

of the

2,500th Anniversary of the Buddha-sāsana

PREFACE.

THIS volume of translation corresponds to the third volume of the text, and the translators, Mr. H. T. Francis, and Mr. R. A. Neil, have endeavoured to keep up an uniformity with the plan adopted in the two former volumes. Mr. Francis is responsible for pp. 1-150 and p. 287 to the end, Mr. Neil for pp. 151-286. The Secretary of State for India has kindly given permission to illustrate one of the stories in this volume also from the Bhārhut Stūpa.

The two translators of this volume cannot allow the book to appear without expressing their gratitude to Professor Cowell for his constant help and supervision and for his kindness in compiling the index.

INDEX.

Ābhassara heaven 220

Aciravatī river 90 151

Aggāḷava shrine 52 216

Ajātasattu 80 81 142 245 319

Aḷavī, a city 52, 216

Ambaṭṭha, court of 248

Ānanda 6, 8, 10, 12, 15, 16, 20, 22, 37, 66, 80, 96, 103, 125, 135, 153, 160, 174, 183, 186, 191, 198, 203, 215, 217, 224, 227, 228, 235, 239, 243, 245, 260, 265, 271, 279, 284, 297, 316

Anāthapiṇḍika 78, 85, 93, 129, 165, 260

Aṅgulimāla 203

Añjanavana park 172

Anotatta lake 165, 168, 230

Anuruddha 97, 279, 293, 294

Anusissa 277

Apacara, a king 272

Arañjara, a country 277

Aruṇa, a king 3

Āsaṅkā 162, 164

Asāvatī, the heavenly creeper 162

Assaka country and people 2, 5

Assaka, a king 2

Assapura, a city 275

Asuras 313

Aṭṭhānāni (impossible conditions), 284

Aṭṭhisena 216

Avantī, kingdom of 277

Avāriyapitā 152

Avavādakā 1

Avīci hell 28, 48, 120, 272, 275

Āyura 208

Badarika monastery 43

Baka the Brahma 219

Bālaka-lōṇakāra-gāma 290

Bandhura, a groom 258

Bāveru, a kingdom 83

Benares 6, 8, 9, 10, passim

Benfey 99, 115, 126, 174

Bhaddavatikā, an elephant 233

Bhaggas, country of the 105

Bhagu, an elder 291

Bharata, a hunter 259; a king of Roruva 280

Bhārukaccha, a country 124

Bhesakalā grove 105

Bimbisāra, king 80

Bodhi, a prince 105, 107

Bodhisatta, the 3, 4, 6, passim

Brahmadatta, king passim

Brahmadatta-kumāra 156, 237, 246, 282, 306

Brahma-world 10, 54, 64, 68, 99, 112, 159, 162, 188, 193, 217, 220, 224, 232, 239, 260, 289, 309, 313

Bulls, tutelary gods in the shape of 4

Candā, queen 118

Candavatī, princess 308

Captain of the Faith, see Sāriputta Cauldrons, the four in hell 31

Ceti, kingdom of 272

Channa 123, 204

Chatta 76, 77

Chittalatā garden 162

Ciñca-mānavikā 186

Cittakūṭa, Mount 137, 138, 160

Culla-anāthapiṇḍika 310

Culladaddara 11

Cullatuṇḍila 181

Dabbasena, a king 9, 10

Daddara, Mount 11

Daddara a city 275

Daddara Nāgas 11

Daḷhadhamma, a king 233

Daṇḍaki, a king 277

Dantapura, a city 2, 228

Darīmukha 156

Dasaṇṇa swords 208

Deccan, the 277

Devadatta 17, 29, 58, 60, 65, 66, 74, 75, 87, 88, 107, 115, 117, 118, 120, 133, 186, 200, 218, 226, 249, 252, 271, 319, 323

Devala, Black 278

Deva-world, the 30

Dhanañjaya 65, 241

Dhanapāla, a prince 118, 119

Dhanapāla, the elephant 184

Dhataraṭṭha, one of the Four Kings 165

Dhūmakāri 242

Dīghati, a king 290

Dīghāvu, prince 139, 290

Dummukha, a king 230

Eṇī, a river 220

Erāvaṇa, Sakka's elephant 237

Feer, L. 128

Folk-lore Journal 205, 210, 285

Footsteps, skill to trace 298

Fourteen sets of priestly duties 287

Gandhamādana, a mountain 270

Gandhāra Kingdom 221 229

Gaṅgamāla, a barber 269

Ganges 35, 88, 106, 220, 225, 283, 284, 292, 310

Garuḍa, Garuḍas 58, 69, 123

Ghata 111, 112

Ghosita park 233, 289

Gijjha-pabbata 164, see Vulture-mountain

Gotama 30, 220

Gumbika (-biya) 132

Hardy 219, 287, 289

Hare, the Moon's 37

Hārita, an ascetic 296

Harittaca-Kumāra 295

Hatthipura, a city 275

Heaven of the Four Kings, the 165, 168

Himālaya, 11, 17, 21, 24, 26, 30, 48, 53, 63, 73, 75, 79, 80, 88, 94, 96, 98, 112, 115, 137, 140, 151, 160, 161, 188, 216, 222, 225, 235, 239, 242, 243, 257, 259, 269, 270, 278, 280, 284, 285, 292, 295, 303, 306, 310, 313, 317, 320

Horseman, the great 6

Indapattana, a city 241

Indra 97, 308 (see Sakka)

Indra (Vāsava) 219 (see Sakka)

Indra (Maghavan) 97 (see Sakka)

Jain (nigaṇṭha) 1, 84

Jambuka 318

Janaka, a king 210, 214

Jatakamālā 17, 26, 34, 85, 225, 244

Jātakas referred to in the text;

Bhaddasāla 225

Cullabodhi 62

Cullahaṃsa 183

Cullanandaka 117

Cullanārada 311

Cullanāradakassapa 98

*Daddara 117

*Indriya 39, 161

*Kaṇavera 261

Khadiraṅgāra 85

Khaṇḍahāla 183

*Khantivādi117

*Kummāsapiṇḍa 270

Kuṇāla 87

Mahājanaka 157

Mahākaṇha 96, 189

Mahāmittavinda 136

Mahāsīlava 9

Mahāummagga 130, 178

Mahilāmukhata 199

Maṇikaṇṭha 52, 216

Mātaṅga 233

Nigrodha 173

Pānīya 12, 228

Paññā 137, 239

Sālaka 130

Sāma 201

Saṅghabhedaka 139

Seyyaṃsa 9

Takkārika 68

Tesakuṇa 73, 197

Tipallattha 43

Uddāla 153

Ummagga 101, 210

Vevaṭiyakapi 117

Jetavana 1, 6, 9, 10, passim

Jewel-mount, the 293

Jotipāla 277

Kaccāna 279

Kākāti, a queen 61

Kālabāhu, a monkey 65

Kalābu, a king 26

Kāladevala 277

Kālakaṇṇi, goddess of ill-luck 165, 166

Kāliṅga, king 2; kingdom 2, 228, 322

Kāma-heavens, the six 166

Kampilla, a city 230

Kampillaka, a kingdom 52

Kapila, a priest 272

Kappa-kumāra 94, 95, 96

— -māṇava 221

Kārandiya 113, 114

Karaṇḍu, a king 228

Kashmir 222

Kāsi, country 21, 24, 26, 30, 39, 63, 94, 140, 170, 178, 183, 189, 192, 193, 237, 245, 278, 290, 314

Kassapa, the elder 60, 279, 323

Kassapa 25

Kathāsarits 244

Kātiyānī (kaccānī) 256

Kaviṭṭhaka hermitage 277

Kebuka (a river) 61

Kesava 94, 95, 96

Khemā 111, 200

Khujjuttarā 111

Kisavaccha 277

Kokālika 68, 75

Kokanada palace 105

Korakalamba, -baka 272

Kosala, king of 9, 15, 29, 69, 76, 80, 89, 103, 111, 140, 172, 241, 245, 256, 265, 280, 290, 310

Kosala, country of 21, 191, 291

Kosambī, city 43, 139, 233, 289, 291

Kumbhavatī, a city 277

Kuṇdaka-kumāra 26

Kurus, kingdom of the 241

Lambacūḷaka, a town 277

Licchavis, the 1

Lolā 1

Lomasa-kassapa 307

Maddava, a king 207

Magadha king, the 156

Magadha kingdom 184, 285

Mahādaddara 11

Mahādhana 282

Mahāgovindasutta quoted 280

Mahākassapa, the elder 47

Mahāmāyā 291

Mahāpajāpatī 120

Mahāpatāpa, a king 118, 119

Mahāsammata, a king 272

Mahātuṇḍila 181

Makhādeva 201

Mallikā, a queen 13, 14, 15, 29, 244

Manoja 200

Manosilā, Mount 230

Māra 186, 294, 316

Mayha bird, the 188

Mejjhāraṇṇa 193

Meḷamātā, a goat 317

Meṇḍissara 277, 279

Migālopa 164

Mittavindaka 136

Mitthila, a city 222, 230

Moggallāna 22, 37, 60, 126, 127, 210, 279, 285, 323

Mūsikā 143

Nāga island 124

Nāgas, the 11, 58, 174

Naggaji, a king 229

Nāḷāgiri, an elephant 65, 118, 249, 319

Nandamūla cave 157, 190, 229, 230, 245, 259, 263, 281

Nandisena, a minister 3

Nandiya 172

Nārada, a minister 95; an ascetic 277

Naṭakuvera 61

Nātaputta, a Jain 84

Neru, Mount 160, 295

Nimi, a king 230

Pabbata 277

Pacceka buddhas 157, 187, 190, 229, 230, 245, 259, 263, 270, 280

Pañcāla kingdom, north, see Uttara P.

Paṇṇalakkhaṇadevī 260

Parantapa 250

Pārileyyaka forest 291

Partridge, the learned 320

Pasenadi, a king 13, 243

Paṭācārā 1

Pāṭala, a dancer 301

Pavement, house of the golden (Koṭisaṃthāro) 12, 228, 239

Pilindiyavaccha 221

Piṅgalā 67

Piṅgiya 105, 106, 107

Potali, a city 2

Poṭṭhapāda, a parrot 65, 66

Pukkusa 208

Pūtimaṅsa, a jackal 317

Rādha, a parrot 65, 66

Rāhu 222, 284

Rāhula 43, 44, 111, 232

Rāhula's mother 64, 180, 200, 232, 239, 248, 271, 282, 311

Rājagaha 22, 47, 48, 156, 184, 221, 285

Red flowers round a condemned criminal's head 40

Requisites of a priest, the eight 229

Right, the dead, offering for 254

Roruva, a city 280

Roruva hell 187

Saccā 1

Saccaka 1

Sagga, a minstrel 124

Sāketa (Oude) 172, 173

Sakka 3, 5, 26, 36, 37, 85, 86, 91, 97, 109, 110, 140, 145, 161, 163, 166, 174, 177, 189, 193, 235, 236, 247, 255, 292, 294, 307

Sakkadattiya 277

Sākya tribe 205

Sālindiya, a village 184

Sālissara 277, 279

Sāmā 40, 42

Sammilla-bhāsinī 63

Samuddavijayā, a queen 280

Sarabhaṅga 277

Sāriputta 1, 2, 5, 13, 22, 23, 29, 32, 34, 60, 96, 113, 114, 121, 126, 127, 156, 174, 177, 210, 215, 241, 260, 279, 309, 323

Sātodika, a river 277

Sattuka, a robber 261

Sāvatthi 1, 14, 20, 24, 29, 32, 34, 38, 45, 49, 55, 76, 77, 78, 92, 103, 112, 120, 180, 186, 228, 241, 243, 244, 253, 276, 291, 294, 298, 309

Sayha, a councillor 21, 22, 307

Senaka 174, 176, 207, 210

Serpents' breath 251

Seruma island 124

Setaketu 154

Sīhapura, a city 275

Simbalī lake, the 60

Sindh asses 176; horses 5

Sineru, see Neru

Sirī (daughter of Dasaraṭṭha) 165

Sirisayana, origin of 168

Sivi, a kingdom 279

Six priests, the heretical 18, 99

Sixteen unsatisfied things, the 210

Sotthivatī (-vatthi?), a city 272

Sovīra, a kingdom 280

Spell for understanding all voices 175

Stūpa of Bharhut 168, 225

Subhakiṇṇa heaven 220

Sublime gods, the 289

Suciparivāra,a merchant 165, 166,168,266

Suddhodana, a king 291

Sujā, Sujātā 97, 176, 292, 293

Sujāta-kumāra 103, 104

Sujātā, a queen 14, 15

Sulasā 261

Sumaṅgala, a park-keeper 263

Sumedha 159

Suṃsumāra-giri 105

Supatta, the vulture-king 287

Sūradaddara 11

Suraṭṭha country 277

Susīma-kumāra 237

Sussondī 124

Sutana 201

Tagarasikhi 187

Takkasilā 21, 26, 43, 52, 62, 76, 79, 81, 94, 98, 99, 105, 106, 111, 113, 128, 145, 151, 154, 161, 192, 210, 216, 229, 237, 241, 243, 246, 249, 257, 277, 295

Tamba, a king 124

Three properties, the 229

Tibetan Tales 17, 49, 61, 62, 80, 99, 120, 126, 144, 205, 210, 218, 282, 285

Tree-spirits 15, 22, 205, 243, 261, 319

Tutelary gods of kings 4, 5

Udaya, a king 267

Udena, a king 105, 233

Upananda 205, 207

Uppalavaṇṇā 2, 111, 168, 193, 200, 232, 244

Ussada hell 136

Uttara-pañcāla 52, 230, 275

Vaṅka, a king 112

Vasiṭṭha 242

Vāyu, the son of 314

Vehapphala heaven 220

Verambha, -ba, wind 164, 287, 288

Verañjā, a city 294

Vesālī 1

Vessavaṅa, one of the Four Kings 165, 166, 201, 298

Videha, king 222

Videha, kingdom 222, 230

Vidhūra-paṇḍita 241, 242

Virūḷha, one of the Four Kings 165, 166

Virūpakkha, one of the Four Kings 165

Visākhā 78, 309

Visayha 85

Vulture Mountain, the 287, 319, see Gijjhapabbata

Yakkhas 96, 97, 106, 132, 201, 298, 304

Yama, the god 281

Yava, prince 142

Yudhiṭṭhila, a king 241

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