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Fairwing the Crow King

Supattajātaka

“Here, in Benares city”—This story the Master told in Jetavana, about a meal of rice mixed with new ghee, with red fish to flavour it, which was given by Elder Sariputta to Bimbadevi. The circumstances are like those given above in the Abbhantara Birth-tale.

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

0.42. Supattajātaka

1.1PTS 2.435“Bārāṇasyaṁ mahārāja,1.2kākarājā nivāsako;1.3Asītiyā sahassehi,1.4supatto parivārito.

2.1Tassa dohaḷinī bhariyā,2.2Suphassā bhakkhitumicchati;2.3Rañño mahānase pakkaṁ,2.4Paccagghaṁ rājabhojanaṁ.

3.1Tesāhaṁ pahito dūto,3.2rañño camhi idhāgato;3.3Bhattu apacitiṁ kummi,3.4nāsāyamakaraṁ vaṇan”ti.

4.1Supattajātakaṁ dutiyaṁ.