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Jātaka Tales 52

Cūḷa-Janaka-Jātaka

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English · E. B. Cowell (ed.), R. Chalmers, W. H. D. Rouse, H. T. Francis, R. A. Neil

Cūḷa-Janaka-Jātaka

“Tou on, my broiher.”—This story was told by the Master while at Jetavana, about another backsliding Brother. All the incidents that are to be related here, will be given in the Maha-janaka-Jataka }.

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English · E. B. Cowell (ed.), R. Chalmers, W. H. D. Rouse, H. T. Francis, R. A. Neil

The king, seated beneath the white canopy of sovereignty, recited this stanza,:—

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English · E. B. Cowell (ed.), R. Chalmers, W. H. D. Rouse, H. T. Francis, R. A. Neil

“Toil on, my brother; still in hope stand fast; Faint. not, nor tire, though harassed sore. Myself I see, who, all my woes o’erpast, Have fought my stubborn way ashore.

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English · E. B. Cowell (ed.), R. Chalmers, W. H. D. Rouse, H. T. Francis, R. A. Neil

Here too the backsliding Brother won Arahatship. The All-wise Buddha was King Janaka.

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Pāli text: Mahāsaṅgīti Tipiṭaka Buddhavasse 2500 (M.L. Maniratana Bunnag Dhamma Society Fund), as published by SuttaCentral. Public domain. · Source ↗

Pāli text: Mahāsaṅgīti Tipiṭaka, via SuttaCentral. Public domain. The canonical Jātaka is the verses only; each verse is shown with the English stanza that translates it where the stanzas could be matched one to one, and after the English story otherwise.

The Cambridge translation edited by E. B. Cowell (1895–1907), read from scans of the printed volumes. Like other translators of the time, they put a few passages into Latin. A handful of Pāli names with diacritics may appear garbled.

The Jātaka, or Stories of the Buddha's Former Births, translated from the Pāli by various hands under the editorship of E. B. Cowell, 6 vols. (Cambridge University Press, 1895–1907). Public domain. Text read from scans in the Internet Archive (Smithsonian Libraries, Cornell University Library, University of California Libraries and others). · Source ↗

The Jātaka, or Stories of the Buddha's Former Births, ed. E. B. Cowell, 6 vols. (Cambridge, 1895–1907). Public domain. Read from scans of the printed edition: every word was checked against three or four independent scans of the same printing and corrected where they agree; footnotes, running heads and page numbers are left out. Diacritics the OCR could not read are not reproduced.

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