King Susīma

Susīmajātaka

“Heretofore the hairs”—The Master told this tale while dwelling in Jetavana, about the Great Renunciation. The Brethren were sitting in the Hall of Truth, praising the Buddha’s renunciation. The Master, finding that this was their topic, said, “Brethren, it is not strange that I should now make the Great Renunciation and retirement from the world, I who have for many hundred thousand ages exercised perfection: of old also I gave up the reign over the kingdom of Kasi, three hundred leagues in extent, and made the renunciation,” and so he told the old tale.

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0.1Jātaka
0.2Sattakanipāta
0.3Gandhāravagga

0.46. Susīmajātaka

1.1PTS 3.393“Kāḷāni kesāni pure ahesuṁ,1.2Jātāni sīsamhi yathāpadese;1.3Tānajja setāni susīma disvā,1.4Dhammaṁ cara brahmacariyassa kālo”.
2.1PTS 3.394“Mameva deva palitaṁ na tuyhaṁ,2.2Mameva sīsaṁ mama uttamaṅgaṁ;2.3‘Atthaṁ karissan’ti musā abhāṇiṁ,2.4Ekāparādhaṁ khama rājaseṭṭha.
3.1Daharo tuvaṁ dassaniyosi rāja,3.2Paṭhamuggato hosi yathā kaḷīro;3.3Rajjañca kārehi mamañca passa,3.4Mā kālikaṁ anudhāvī janinda”.
4.1PTS 3.395“Passāmi vohaṁ dahariṁ kumāriṁ,4.2Sāmaṭṭhapassaṁ sutanuṁ sumajjhaṁ;4.3Kāḷappavāḷāva pavellamānā,4.4Palobhayantīva naresu gacchati.
5.1Tamena passāmiparena nāriṁ,5.2Āsītikaṁ nāvutikaṁ va jaccā;5.3Daṇḍaṁ gahetvāna pavedhamānaṁ,5.4Gopānasībhoggasamaṁ carantiṁ.
6.1PTS 3.396Sohaṁ tamevānuvicintayanto,6.2Eko sayāmi sayanassa majjhe;6.3‘Ahampi evaṁ’ iti pekkhamāno,6.4Na gahe rame brahmacariyassa kālo.
7.1Rajjuvālambanī cesā,7.2Yā gehe vasato rati;7.3Evampi chetvāna vajanti dhīrā,7.4Anapekkhino kāmasukhaṁ pahāyā”ti.

8.1Susīmajātakaṁ chaṭṭhaṁ.