The Golden Crab

Suvaṇṇakakkaṭajātaka

“Gold-clawed creature”—The Master told this tale when dwelling in the Bamboo-grove, of Ananda’s dying for his sake. The occasion is told in the Khandahala Birth about the hiring of bowmen, and in the Cullahamsa Birth about the roar of the elephant Dhanapala. Then they began a discussion in the Hall of Truth: “Sirs, has the Elder Ananda, Treasurer of the Law, who attained all the wisdom possible to one still under discipline, given up his life for the Perfect Buddha when Dhanapala came?” The Master came and was told the subject of their discussion: he said, “Brother, in former times also Ananda gave up his life for me:” and so he told an old tale.

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0.1Jātaka
0.2Chakkanipāta
0.3Kharaputtavagga

0.44. Suvaṇṇakakkaṭajātaka

1.1PTS 3.295“Siṅgīmigo āyatacakkhunetto,1.2Aṭṭhittaco vārisayo alomo;1.3Tenābhibhūto kapaṇaṁ rudāmi,1.4Hare sakhā kissa nu maṁ jahāsi”.
2.1PTS 3.296So passasanto mahatā phaṇena,2.2Bhujaṅgamo kakkaṭamajjhapatto;2.3Sakhā sakhāraṁ paritāyamāno,2.4Bhujaṅgamaṁ kakkaṭako gahesi.
3.1“Na vāyasaṁ no pana kaṇhasappaṁ,3.2Ghāsatthiko kakkaṭako adeyya;3.3Pucchāmi taṁ āyatacakkhunetta,3.4Atha kissa hetumha ubho gahītā”.
4.1“Ayaṁ puriso mama atthakāmo,4.2Yo maṁ gahetvāna dakāya neti;4.3Tasmiṁ mate dukkhamanappakaṁ me,4.4Ahañca eso ca ubho na homa.
5.1Mamañca disvāna pavaddhakāyaṁ,5.2Sabbo jano hiṁsitumeva micche;5.3Sāduñca thūlañca muduñca maṁsaṁ,5.4Kākāpi maṁ disvāna viheṭhayeyyuṁ”.
6.1PTS 3.297“Sacetassa hetumha ubho gahītā,6.2Uṭṭhātu poso visamāvamāmi;6.3Mamañca kākañca pamuñca khippaṁ,6.4Pure visaṁ gāḷhamupeti maccaṁ”.
7.1PTS 3.298“Sappaṁ pamokkhāmi na tāva kākaṁ,7.2Paṭibandhako hohiti tāva kāko;7.3Purisañca disvāna sukhiṁ arogaṁ,7.4Kākaṁ pamokkhāmi yatheva sappaṁ”.
8.1“Kāko tadā devadatto ahosi,8.2Māro pana kaṇhasappo ahosi;8.3Ānandabhaddo kakkaṭako ahosi,8.4Ahaṁ tadā brāhmaṇo homi satthā”ti.

9.1Suvaṇṇakakkaṭajātakaṁ catutthaṁ.