Mudupāṇijātaka
“A soft hand”—This story the Master told at Jetavana, about a back-sliding Brother. They brought him to the Hall of Truth, and the Master asked him if he were really a backslider? He replied, yes, he was. Then said the Master, “O Brethren! It is impossible to keep women from going after their desires. In olden days, even wise men could not guard their own daughters; while they stood holding their fathers’ hand, without their fathers’ knowing, they went away wrong-doing with a paramour”; and he told them an old-world tale.
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1.1PTS 2.324“Pāṇi ce muduko cassa,1.2nāgo cassa sukārito;1.3Andhakāro ca vasseyya,1.4atha nūna tadā siyā”.
2.1PTS 2.326“Analā mudusambhāsā,2.2duppūrā tā nadīsamā;2.3Sīdanti naṁ viditvāna,2.4ārakā parivajjaye.
3.1Yaṁ etā upasevanti,3.2chandasā vā dhanena vā;3.3Jātavedova saṁ ṭhānaṁ,3.4khippaṁ anudahanti nan”ti.
4.1Mudupāṇijātakaṁ dutiyaṁ.
