YASHPEH
International Folktales Collection
Book No. 67
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The Jataka (Volume V) |
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Francis H. T. (translator) |
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The Jataka, Volume V, tr. By H. T. Francis ed. E. B. Cowell, 1905 |
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This is volume five of the complete Jataka translation edited by E.B. Cowell. The Jataka is the treasure-house of stories about the Buddha's previous incarnations. THE JĀTAKA OR STORIES OF THE BUDDHA'S FORMER BIRTHS. TRANSLATED FROM THE PALI BY VARIOUS HANDS UNDER THE EDITORSHIP OF PROFESSOR E. B. COWELL. VOL. V. TRANSLATED BY H. T. FRANCIS, M.A., SOMETIME FELLOW OF GONVILLE AND CAIUS COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE. LONDON PUBLISHED FOR THE PALI TEXT SOCIETY BY LUZAC & COMPANY, LTD. 46 GREAT RUSSELL STREET, W.C.1 Originally Published by The Cambridge University Press [1905] PIAE MEMORIAE EDWARDI BYLES COWELL DOCTISSIMI DILECTISSIMI ET ROBERTI ALEXANDRI NEIL DESIDERATISSIMI SACRUM PREFACE THE delay in the issue of this volume calls for a few words of explanation. I had hoped that the late Mr. Neil of Pembroke would have collaborated with me in the fifth volume of the Jātaka Translation as he had already done in Vol. III. But this was not to be, and his premature death in 1901, which was generally acknowledged to be a serious loss to the cause of Oriental learning, no less than to that of Classical scholarship, threw upon me the burden of undertaking the entire volume without his efficient aid and criticism. The beloved Master of our "Guild of Translators," the late Professor Cowell, assisted me in my task so long as his increasing years and infirmities allowed him to continue his unwearied efforts for the advancement of Oriental studies, but he was not able to give to the work that minute and careful revision which he had so generously lavished on the four preceding volumes. My labours were also somewhat prolonged by the larger proportion of this volume which had to be versified. In rendering the gāthās I have done my best to give the exact sense of the Pali, so far as it was compatible with the exigencies of a metrical version, and if the result at times should strike the reader as rather feeble and pointless, I might urge in extenuation that the original is sometimes equally prosaic and commonplace. Moreover, although I have always regarded Childers' Pali Dictionary as a work of extraordinary merit for the time at which it appeared, yet it would no doubt greatly lighten the labours of translators from the Pali, if the mass of critical annotations now scattered throughout the Pali Text Society's Publications and various other Oriental Journals could be gathered together and embodied in the new Pali Dictionary which Professor Rhys Davids has promised us. Meanwhile I have to thank Mrs. Bode for her very useful Index to Pali words discussed in Translations which appeared in the P. T. Journal for 1897-1901. It only remains for me to acknowledge my debt of gratitude to Professor Bendall for the kind help he has given me in the many difficulties I have referred to him, and for the readiness with which he has placed at my disposal the stores of his wide reading and critical scholarship. The sixth and last volume of the Translation, which was left unfinished by Professor Cowell, is now in the capable hands of Dr Rouse and will appear in due course edited and completed by him. H. T. FRANCIS. GONVILLE AND CAIUS COLLEGE, Oct. 25th, 1905. |
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INDEX OF SUBJECT MATTERS. Act of Truth 15, 16, 47, 52, 246, 275 Alms, exchange of, forbidden 208 Alms-Halls 85, 203, 206, 279 Ambrosia 211, 212, 213, 214, 215, 216 Ānanda's renunciation of life 175, 177, 178, 186 Annihilation, doctrine of 117, 123 Archery, extraordinary 68, 69 Areca nuts 171 Arhatship 79, 130, 245, 246, Arms, blaze of, an omen 66 Ascetic youth led astray by a girl habited as a boy 102 Attainments, eight 70, 135, 166 Backbiting 1, 5 Bamboo dies after bearing fruit 41, 195 Bark garment 49, 70, 102, 104, 153 Beauty and the Beast, parallel to 141 Benares cloth 199 Birds adopted as children by a king 60 Birth without the intervention of parents 218 Brahmins, entertainment of 127, 206, 269 Brahmins not allowed strong drink 253 Brahmins spoken of as low-caste 132 Bribery 2, 5, 117 Buddha emits dark rays from his hair 220 Cambodian horses 241 Cannibalism 12, 18, 248 Car, festal 128 Cats intoxicated 7 Child suckled by a goat 230 Children, three kinds of 46 Clapping with one hand 243 Conception, miraculous 144 Coral tree 143, 210 Crows nourished by oblations 58 Cry of capture, birds' 178, 190 Cuckoo, royal, escorted through the air by a train of cuckoos 221 Cycle, flame at the beginning of a 177, Dead flowers removed from temples by a low-caste man 242 Death written on the brow 119, 159, 269 Devadatta, attempt of, to kill the Buddha 37, 41, 175 Devadatta swallowed up by the earth 42, 48, 134 Dhuta precepts 202 Doe gives birth to a man child 79, 100 Dog warns his benefactor of danger 119 Door, back or side-door 69, 135 Door, mechanism of 153, 156 Dreams 23, 186, 239 Drink, strong, how it was discovered 6 Drink, strong, evil effects of 7, 8, 9, 10 Drinking festival 5, 252 Eating alone wrong 207, 208, 212 Ecstasy, mystic see Mystic Meditation Eight blessings of the ascetic 130, 131 Eight grounds for despising a husband 232 Eighty Great Elders 177, 246 Elephant festival 147 Elephant trained to stand firm under attack 162 Emblems of royalty, five 136 Exposure of an infant 230 Faculties, supernatural 70, 100, 135, 165, 166, 224 Fast-day, reward for keeping 4 Fast-day vows 1, 247 Fauna of India 222 Finger laid on the forehead as mark of respect to the Bodhisatta 260 Fire, sacred 2 Fish choose a king 250 Fish devours its own tail 251 Five emblems of royalty 136 Five feminine charms 48 Five five-clawed things that may be eaten 267 Five kinds of immorality 185 Five kinds of immorality 185 Five kinds of lust 244, 272 Five kinds women to be avoided 241 Five kinds of locks of hair 125, 129, 130 Five kinds of moral laws 18, 174, 177, 193, 201, 191 209, 252, 274 Five Rests 274 Five signs of falling from the Faith 141 Five sweet kinds of flesh 257, 266 Fortune tellers 154 Fortune tellers from personal marks 108, 154, 247, 264 p. 281 Forty ways in which a woman makes up to a man 232 Four arms in a host 162, 168, 170, 259, 265 Four Great Kings 166, 258, 274 Four island continents 220 Four modes of conciliation 174, 185, 191 Four postures 107 Four requisites 19 Four things likely to prove injurious 232 Four things not to be satisfied 243 Four ways of deportment 135 Fowlers, village of 178, 187 Frenzy produced by a woman's beauty 108 Gandhabba 276 Garuḍa king 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 48 Garuḍa wind raised by wings of 43, 46 Geese enclosed in a cave by a spider's web 255 Geese preaching the law 183, 184, 186,187, 192, 198 Gold plate inscribed 32, 37, 64 Grey hair, a king frightened by the appearance of a 92 Guardian angel 230 Hells, eight major 137 Hells one hundred and twenty minor 137 Heresies and heretics 65, 117, 122, 123, 124, 177 Heretics, four great 126 Heron feather fixed on arrows 259 Holy days, observance of 84, 85, 90, 91, 247 Hunting one beast with another condemned 139, 198 Impermanence of things 78, 96, 128 Iron Cauldron hell 138, 139 Jar of water, a good omen 73 Karma denied 117, 122 Kshatriya doctrine 117, 123, 268 Kshatriya wiles 16 108, 247, 264 Kusa makes the earth to tremble by his look 162 Layman, characteristics of a 128 Leprosy 38, 39, 41, 49, 52, 53 Lion's mouth its fifth paw 225 Lotus nectar 253 Lucky marks 81, 108, 194, 196 Magic jewel 88, 90, 163 Magic powers 5, 29, 65, 166, 167, 169, 221 Marks, auspicious see Lucky marks Milk money 66 Miser 204, 205, 206 Moggallāna, death of 64, 65, 66 Monkey-skin, parable of the 121 Moon, eclipse of, due to Rāhu 18 Moon figure of a hare depicted in the 18 Moons, observance of 90, 109, 247 Mother, virtues of a 173, 174 Mystic circle 166 Mystic Meditation 5, 53, 70, 79, 83, 84, 100, 103, 106, 126, 134, 135 Nerves of taste, seven thousand 152, 248 Nine ways in which a woman incurs blame 232 Nirvāna 55, 134, 245, 263, 278 Nude ascetic 8, 42, 45 Oath, form of 262 Ogress (female yakkha) carries off children 11 Omens 66, 73, 127, 239 One shoulder bared as a mark of respect 217 Parables 114, 121, 124, 131 Parents called "Brahma" 174 Parents care of 11, 164, 278 Parents care of devolves on the eldest son 165, 171, 172, 176 Parents inviolate 278 Paths, the 5, 6, 19, 31, 84, 106, 115, 164, 174, 177 Patience, virtue of 75, 76 Perfect States, the four 91, 106, 126 Perfection of Wisdom 31, 116, 221 Phantom palace 2 Pit dug to trap an elephant 27 Prayer offered in a previous existence fulfilled 11, 22, 25, 109, 149 Precious stones, king enthroned on a pile of 279 Pregnancy, ceremonies observed on 144 Previous existence, sin committed in a, bears fruit 65 Princess to be cut into seven pieces for seven suitors 158 Problem proposed or solved 31, 37, 61, 62, 63, 73, 75, 76, 79, 136 Problem of the Five Sages 45 Prognostication from personal appearance 108, 247, 264 Proverbs 34, 35, 52, 137, 154, 204, 232, 243 Puns 110, 254, 260 Quarrel between two clans about water rights 209, 210 Rain, absence of, for three years 100 Rainy season lasting five months 255 Rays emitted from Buddha's hair 6 Rays of light from a woman's body 49, 147, 147 Remembrance of former births 20, 22, 25, 225, 257 Renunciation 86, 99, 127, 129, 134 Requisites for ascetic life 69, 70, 90, 98, 119 Riddles 75 Right-wise movement 83 p. 282 Sakka's four daughters, contest between 210 Sakka's throne shaken by a mortal's virtue 50, 80, 100 Sakka's throne shows signs of heat 50, Sanctuary lake for birds 187, 188 Sāriputta, death of 64, 66 Scape-goats for sin 71 Scented wreaths, offering of 5, 65, 187, 201, 210, 260, 263 Sevāla plant 20, 250 Seven gold-coloured creatures 187 Seven precious things 264 Shower, miraculous 65, 72, 73, 79 Sieve, life like water running through a 96 Signet ring 236, 253 Simples in surgery 49, 275 Sindh horses 132 Sinning, three modes of 9 Six-coloured rays emitted by Buddha 20, 22, 23, 220, 221 Six injurious things 232 Six senses, desires of the 266 Six-tusked elephant 23, 24, 27 Six worlds of sense 269 Slaves made freedmen 165 Snakes, how they defend themselves against garuḍas 43 Snare for birds described 189 Soma juice 92, 246 Spell 257 Spirit enjoys alternate bliss and woe 2 Sprinkling ceremonial 52, 128, 132, 147, 239, 241, 271, 279 Squatting penance 124 Stars, lucky conjunction of 66 Sterility of women, observances to remove 142 Sun worship 192, 228 Supernatural powers 65, 169, 208, 221, 225, 245 Supreme Being 117, 122 Tax gatherers, oppression of 54, 57 Ten royal virtues 200, 201, 279 Thirty-Three, heaven of the 11, 83, 142, 143, 208, 210, 216, 218 Three kinds of misconduct 9 Three kinds of right conduct 8 Tooth-stick 49, 71, 72, 81, 165 Top knot severed by a king as a sign of abdicating the throne 97 Torture, "straw and meal" 65 Traditions kept up in a family 147, 204, 206 Transformation from one bodily shape to another 208 Tree deity 54, 234, 257, 259 Triple folds in the neck a sign of luck 81 Truths, the 5, 19, 71, 84, 106, 115, 164, 174 Twelve evil things destroyed by eating ambrosia 212 Twenty-five ways by which a wicked woman is known 233 Umbrella, white, token of royalty 7, 11, 12, 18, 52, 64, 92, 121, 151, 162, 184, 187, 196, 201, 205, 270 Universal monarch 245 Vedas, the 164, 243, 252, 259 Vision, supernatural 18, 128 Weapons, five kinds of 150 West, the, ill-omened quarter 214 White Nun 228 Wind, to catch with a net 154, 241, 243 Woman, frailty of 225, 229, 231, 234, 235, 236, 240, 242 Woman, story of a, soft to the touch 237, 238, 239 World, Formless 274 World of Form 245 Yak-tail fan, emblem of royalty 170 Yakkha, carnivorous 51, 248, 257 Yakkha eyes of, red and unwinking 18 Yakkha, figure of, depicted in the moon 18 Yellow robe of priest 27, 28, 97, 98 Yellow robe does not make a saint 28 |
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