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The Brahmin Sāketa

Sāketajātaka

“Why are hearts cold”—This story the Master told during a stay near Saketa, about a brahmin named Saketa. Both the circumstances that suggested the story and the story itself have already been given in the First Book.

Pāli: Mahāsaṅgīti Tipiṭaka · Public domain (CC0) via SuttaCentral

0.47. Sāketajātaka

1.1PTS 2.235“Ko nu kho bhagavā hetu,1.2ekacce idha puggale;1.3Atīva hadayaṁ nibbāti,1.4cittañcāpi pasīdati”.

2.1“Pubbeva sannivāsena,2.2paccuppannahitena vā;2.3Evaṁ taṁ jāyate pemaṁ,2.4uppalaṁva yathodake”ti.

3.1Sāketajātakaṁ sattamaṁ.