Impossible

Aṭṭhānajātaka

“Make Ganges calm”—The Master told this tale while dwelling in Jetavana, concerning a backsliding Brother. The Master asked him, “Is the story true, Brother, that you are backsliding?” “Yes, lord.” “What is the cause?” “The power of desire.” “Brother, womankind are ungrateful, treacherous, untrustworthy: of old wise men could not satisfy a woman, even by giving her a thousand pieces a day: and one day when she did not get the thousand pieces she had them taken by the neck and cast out: so ungrateful are womankind: do not fall into the power of desire for such a cause,” and so he told an old tale.

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0.1Jātaka
0.2Aṭṭhakanipāta
0.3Kaccānivagga

0.49. Aṭṭhānajātaka

1.1PTS 3.477“Gaṅgā kumudinī santā,1.2saṅkhavaṇṇā ca kokilā;1.3Jambu tālaphalaṁ dajjā,1.4atha nūna tadā siyā.
2.1Yadā kacchapalomānaṁ,2.2pāvāro tividho siyā;2.3Hemantikaṁ pāvuraṇaṁ,2.4atha nūna tadā siyā.
3.1Yadā makasapādānaṁ,3.2aṭṭālo sukato siyā;3.3Daḷho ca avikampī ca,3.4atha nūna tadā siyā.
4.1Yadā sasavisāṇānaṁ,4.2nisseṇī sukatā siyā;4.3Saggassārohaṇatthāya,4.4atha nūna tadā siyā.
5.1Yadā nisseṇimāruyha,5.2candaṁ khādeyyu mūsikā;5.3Rāhuñca paripāteyyuṁ,5.4atha nūna tadā siyā.
6.1Yadā surāghaṭaṁ pitvā,6.2makkhikā gaṇacāriṇī;6.3Aṅgāre vāsaṁ kappeyyuṁ,6.4atha nūna tadā siyā.
7.1Yadā bimboṭṭhasampanno,7.2gadrabho sumukho siyā;7.3Kusalo naccagītassa,7.4atha nūna tadā siyā.
8.1Yadā kākā ulūkā ca,8.2mantayeyyuṁ rahogatā;8.3Aññamaññaṁ pihayeyyuṁ,8.4atha nūna tadā siyā.
9.1PTS 3.478Yadā muḷāla pattānaṁ,9.2chattaṁ thirataraṁ siyā;9.3Vassassa paṭighātāya,9.4atha nūna tadā siyā.
10.1Yadā kulako sakuṇo,10.2pabbataṁ gandhamādanaṁ;10.3Tuṇḍenādāya gaccheyya,10.4atha nūna tadā siyā.
11.1Yadā sāmuddikaṁ nāvaṁ,11.2sayantaṁ savaṭākaraṁ;11.3Ceṭo ādāya gaccheyya,11.4atha nūna tadā siyā”ti.

12.1Aṭṭhānajātakaṁ navamaṁ.