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Mount Neru

Nerujātaka

“Ravens and crows”—The Master told this tale in Jetavana concerning a certain Brother. The story is that he got the forms of meditation from the Master and then went to a frontier village. There the people, pleased with his deportment, fed him, built him a hut in the wood, and exacting a promise, made him live there, and gave him great honour. But they forsook him for the teachers of the permanence of matter, afterwards forsaking those for the sect who deny immortality, and those again for the sect of naked ascetics: for teachers of all these sects came among them in turn.

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0.1Jātaka
0.2Chakkanipāta
0.3Avāriyavagga

0.44. Nerujātaka

1.1PTS 3.247“Kākolā kākasaṅghā ca,1.2mayañca patataṁ varā;1.3Sabbeva sadisā homa,1.4imaṁ āgamma pabbataṁ.
2.1Idha sīhā ca byagghā ca,2.2siṅgālā ca migādhamā;2.3Sabbeva sadisā honti,2.4ayaṁ ko nāma pabbato”.
3.1“Imaṁ nerūti jānanti,3.2manussā pabbatuttamaṁ;3.3Idha vaṇṇena sampannā,3.4vasanti sabbapāṇino”.
4.1“Amānanā yattha siyā,4.2santānaṁ vā vimānanā;4.3Hīnasammānanā vāpi,4.4na tattha vasatiṁ vase.
5.1Yatthālaso ca dakkho ca,5.2sūro bhīru ca pūjiyā;5.3Na tattha santo vasanti,5.4avisesakare nare.
6.1PTS 3.248Nāyaṁ neru vibhajati,6.2hīnaukkaṭṭhamajjhime;6.3Avisesakaro neru,6.4handa neruṁ jahāmase”ti.

7.1Nerujātakaṁ catutthaṁ.