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Maṭṭhakuṇḍalījātaka

“Why in the woodland”—This story the Master told while sojourning in Jetavana, about a landowner whose son had died. At Savatthi, we learn that death took a beloved son of a certain landowner who used to wait upon the Buddha. Afflicted with grief for his son, the man washed not and ate not, and neither went about his own business nor waited upon the Buddha, only cried, “O my beloved son, thou hast left me, and gone before!”

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0.411. Maṭṭhakuṇḍalījātaka

1.1PTS 4.60“Alaṅkato maṭṭhakuṇḍalī,1.2Māladhārī haricandanussado;1.3Bāhā paggayha kandasi,1.4Vanamajjhe kiṁ dukkhito tuvaṁ”.

2.1“Sovaṇṇamayo pabhassaro,2.2Uppanno rathapañjaro mama;2.3Tassa cakkayugaṁ na vindāmi,2.4Tena dukkhena jahāmi jīvitaṁ”.

3.1“Sovaṇṇamayaṁ maṇīmayaṁ,3.2Lohamayaṁ atha rūpiyāmayaṁ;3.3Pāvada rathaṁ karissāmi te,3.4Cakkayugaṁ paṭipādayāmi taṁ”.

4.1PTS 4.61“So māṇavo tassa pāvadi,4.2Candasūriyā ubhayettha bhātaro;4.3Sovaṇṇamayo ratho mama,4.4Tena cakkayugena sobhati”.

5.1“Bālo kho tvaṁsi māṇava,5.2Yo tvaṁ patthayase apatthiyaṁ;5.3Maññāmi tuvaṁ marissasi,5.4Na hi tvaṁ lacchasi candasūriye”.

6.1“Gamanāgamanampi dissati,6.2Vaṇṇadhātu ubhayettha vīthiyo;6.3Peto pana neva dissati,6.4Ko nu kho kandataṁ bālyataro”.

7.1“Saccaṁ kho vadesi māṇava,7.2Ahameva kandataṁ bālyataro;7.3Candaṁ viya dārako rudaṁ,7.4Petaṁ kālakatābhipatthaye.

8.1Ādittaṁ vata maṁ santaṁ,8.2ghatasittaṁva pāvakaṁ;8.3Vārinā viya osiñcaṁ,8.4sabbaṁ nibbāpaye daraṁ.

9.1PTS 4.62Abbahī vata me sallaṁ,9.2yamāsi hadayassitaṁ;9.3Yo me sokaparetassa,9.4puttasokaṁ apānudi.

10.1Sohaṁ abbūḷhasallosmi,10.2vītasoko anāvilo;10.3Na socāmi na rodāmi,10.4tava sutvāna māṇavā”ti.

11.1Maṭṭhakuṇḍalījātakaṁ ekādasamaṁ.