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Jātaka Tales

Jātaka Tales 88

Sārambha-Jātaka

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

Sārambha-Jātaka

“Speak kindly.”—This story was told by the Master while at Savatthi, about the precept touching abusive language. The introductory story and the story of the past are the same as in the Nandivisala-jataka above.

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

But in this case there is the difference that the Bodhisatta was an ox named Sarambha, and belonged to a brahmin of Takkasila in the kingdom of Gandhara. After telling the story of the past, the Master, as Buddha, uttered this stanza:—

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

Speak kindly, revile not your fellow; Love kindness; reviling breeds sorrow.

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

When the Master had ended his lesson he identified the Birth by saying, “Ananda was the brahmin of those days, Uppalavanna his wife, and Sarambha.”

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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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