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Grain by Grain

Thusajātaka

“With sense so nice”—This story was told by the Master while living in the Bamboo Grove, of prince Ajatasattu. At the time of his conception there arose in his mother, the daughter of the king of Kosala, a chronic longing to drink blood from the right knee of king Bimbisara (her husband).

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0.1Jātaka
0.2Catukkanipāta
0.3Kokilavagga

0.48. Thusajātaka

1.1PTS 3.123“Viditaṁ thusaṁ undurānaṁ,1.2Viditaṁ pana taṇḍulaṁ;1.3Thusaṁ thusaṁ vivajjetvā,1.4Taṇḍulaṁ pana khādare.
2.1PTS 3.124Yā mantanā araññasmiṁ,2.2yā ca gāme nikaṇṇikā;2.3Yañcetaṁ iti cīti ca,2.4etampi viditaṁ mayā.
3.1Dhammena kira jātassa,3.2pitā puttassa makkaṭo;3.3Daharasseva santassa,3.4dantehi phalamacchidā.
4.1PTS 3.125Yametaṁ parisappasi,4.2ajakāṇova sāsape;4.3Yopāyaṁ heṭṭhato seti,4.4etampi viditaṁ mayā”ti.

5.1Thusajātakaṁ aṭṭhamaṁ.