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Ādittajātaka

“Whate’er a man can save”—The Master told this tale while dwelling in Jetavana, concerning an incomparable gift. The incomparable gift must be described in full from the commentary on the Mahagovindasutta. On the day after that on which it had been given, they were talking of it in the Hall of Truth, “Sirs, the Kosala king after examination found the proper field of merit, and gave the great gift to the assembly with Buddha at its head.” The Master came and was told what the subject of their talk was as they sat together: he said, “Brethren, it is not strange that the king after examination has undertaken great gifts to the supreme field of merit: wise men of old also after examination gave such gifts,” and so he told a tale of old.

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0.1Jātaka
0.2Aṭṭhakanipāta
0.3Kaccānivagga

0.48. Ādittajātaka

1.1PTS 3.471“Ādittasmiṁ agārasmiṁ,1.2yaṁ nīharati bhājanaṁ;1.3Taṁ tassa hoti atthāya,1.4no ca yaṁ tattha ḍayhati.
2.1Evamādīpito loko,2.2jarāya maraṇena ca;2.3Nīharetheva dānena,2.4dinnaṁ hoti sunīhataṁ”.
3.1PTS 3.472“Yo dhammaladdhassa dadāti dānaṁ,3.2Uṭṭhānaviriyādhigatassa jantu;3.3Atikkamma so vetaraṇiṁ yamassa,3.4Dibbāni ṭhānāni upeti macco.
4.1Dānañca yuddhañca samānamāhu,4.2Appāpi santā bahuke jinanti;4.3Appampi ce saddahāno dadāti,4.4Teneva so hoti sukhī parattha.
5.1Viceyya dānaṁ sugatappasatthaṁ,5.2Ye dakkhiṇeyyā idha jīvaloke;5.3Etesu dinnāni mahapphalāni,5.4Bījāni vuttāni yathā sukhette.
6.1Yo pāṇabhūtāni aheṭhayaṁ caraṁ,6.2Parūpavādā na karoti pāpaṁ;6.3Bhīruṁ pasaṁsanti na tattha sūraṁ,6.4Bhayā hi santo na karonti pāpaṁ.
7.1Hīnena brahmacariyena,7.2khattiye upapajjati;7.3Majjhimena ca devattaṁ,7.4uttamena visujjhati.
8.1PTS 3.473Addhā hi dānaṁ bahudhā pasatthaṁ,8.2Dānā ca kho dhammapadaṁva seyyo;8.3Pubbeva hi pubbatareva santo,8.4Nibbānamevajjhagamuṁ sapaññā”ti.

9.1Ādittajātakaṁ aṭṭhamaṁ.