Jātaka Tales
Kacchapa-Jātaka
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Kacchapa-Jātaka
“Quis pateram extendens,” etc.—This story the Master told dining a stay in Jetavana, how a quarrel was made up between two magnates of the king’s court in Kosala. The circumstances have been told in the Second Book.
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Brahmadatta quondam Benari regnante, Bodisatta sacerdotali genere regno Kasensi natus, postquam ad puberem aetatem pervenit, in urbe Takkasila studiis se dedit, et mox, cum lubidines tandem compressisset, solitarius homo in agro Himavanto prope ripam Gangae frondibus ramisque arborum mapale contexit ubi habitaret, Facultates Potentiasque magicas foveret, gaudium perpetuae cogitationis perciperet. Turn quidem hoc modo nato ita mens erat placida placataque ut ad summam patientiam unus pervenerit.
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Quem in limine casae sedentem visitabat Simius quidam impudentissimus pessimusque, inque aurem eius semen emittere solebat, neque tamen eum commovere poterat, sed sedebat porro summa animi tranquillitate Bodisatta. Accidit quondam ut ex aqua Testudo egressa somnum ore aperto captaret, in sole apricans. Quam cum vidisset Simius ille impudens, nec mora, pene in os inserto incepit futuere. Continuo Testudo experrecta os velut cistellam conclusit dentibusque comprendit id quod insertum erat. Simius cum nequiret nimium dolorem mulcere ‘quo earn,’ inquit, ‘cui persuadeam ut hoc dolore me liberet’ Fore ut liberaretur ratus si ad Bodisattam pervenisset, Testudine ambabus manibus sublata ad Bodisattam pergit: qui ludos fecit Simium versibus his:
Kacchapajātaka
“Ko nu uddhitabhattova, pūrahatthova brāhmaṇo; Kahaṁ nu bhikkhaṁ acari, kaṁ saddhaṁ upasaṅkami”.
“quis pateram extendens! nostram mendicat ad aulam unde venis precibus quae, precor, esca datast”
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Quibus auditis Simius respondit:
“Ahaṁ kapismi dummedho, anāmāsāni āmasiṁ; Tvaṁ maṁ mocaya bhaddaṁ te, mutto gaccheyya pabbataṁ”.
“quod tetigisse nefas, tetigi: sum simius amens: eripe me! ereptus mox nemora alta petam.”
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Continue pergit Bodisatta, Simium allocutus:
“Kacchapā kassapā honti, Koṇḍaññā honti makkaṭā; Muñca kassapa koṇḍaññaṁ, Kataṁ methunakaṁ tayā”ti.
“Cassapa testudo genus est: Condannus at ille: Cassapa Condannum mitte fututa precor.”
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His verbis valde delectata Testudo Simium omisit: qui Bodisattae dicta salute, se in fugam dedit, neque umquam postea eum locum ne oculis quidem usurpavit. Testudo quoque cum salutem dixisset abiit, at Bodisatta, defixo in contemplatione perpetua animo, tandem in eum locum, cuius dominus Brahma deus, pervenit.
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When this discourse was ended, the Master declared the Truths and identified the Birth: “The two magnates were the Monkey and Tortoise, and I was the hermit.”