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Seyyajātaka

“No throne on earth”—The Master told this story while in residence at Jetavana, about a backsliding brother, who in going his rounds for alms at Savatthi caught sight of a beautiful woman, and thenceforth had grown discontented and lost all pleasure in the Law.

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0.1Jātaka
0.2Catukkanipāta
0.3Kāliṅgavagga

0.410. Seyyajātaka

1.1PTS 3.32“Sasamuddapariyāyaṁ,1.2mahiṁ sāgarakuṇḍalaṁ;1.3Na icche saha nindāya,1.4evaṁ seyya vijānahi.
2.1Dhiratthu taṁ yasalābhaṁ,2.2dhanalābhañca brāhmaṇa;2.3Yā vutti vinipātena,2.4adhammacaraṇena vā.
3.1Api ce pattamādāya,3.2anagāro paribbaje;3.3Sāyeva jīvikā seyyo,3.4yā cādhammena esanā.
4.1Api ce pattamādāya,4.2anagāro paribbaje;4.3Aññaṁ ahiṁsayaṁ loke,4.4api rajjena taṁ varan”ti.

5.1Seyyajātakaṁ dasamaṁ.

5.2Kāliṅgavaggo paṭhamo.

6.1Tassuddānaṁ

7.1Vivarañca adeyya samiddhavaraṁ,7.2Atha daddara pāpamahātiraho;7.3Atha koli palāsavarañca kara,7.4Carimaṁ sasamuddavarena dasāti.