King Dasaratha

Dasarathajātaka

“Let Lakkhana”—This story the Master told in Jetavana about a landowner whose father was dead. This man on his father’s death was overwhelmed with sorrow: leaving all his duties undone, he gave himself up to his sorrow wholly. The Master at dawn of day looking out upon mankind, perceived that he was ripe for attaining the fruit of the First Path. Next day, after going his rounds for alms in Savatthi, his meal done, he dismissed the Brethren, and taking with him a junior Brother, went to this man’s house, and gave him greeting, and addressed him as he sat there in words of honey sweetness. “You are in sorrow, lay Brother?” said he. “Yes, Sir, afflicted with sorrow for my father’s sake.” Said the Master, “Lay Brother, wise men of old who exactly knew the eight conditions of this world, felt at a father’s death no grief, not even a little.” Then at his request he told a story of the past.

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0.1Jātaka
0.2Ekādasakanipāta
0.3Mātuposakavagga

0.47. Dasarathajātaka

1.1PTS 4.126“Etha lakkhaṇa sītā ca,1.2ubho otarathodakaṁ;1.3Evāyaṁ bharato āha,1.4‘rājā dasaratho mato’”.
2.1“Kena rāmappabhāvena,2.2socitabbaṁ na socasi;2.3Pitaraṁ kālakataṁ sutvā,2.4na taṁ pasahate dukhaṁ”.
3.1“Yaṁ na sakkā nipāletuṁ,3.2posena lapataṁ bahuṁ;3.3Sa kissa viññū medhāvī,3.4attānamupatāpaye.
4.1PTS 4.127Daharā ca hi vuddhā ca,4.2ye bālā ye ca paṇḍitā;4.3Aḍḍhā ceva daliddā ca,4.4sabbe maccuparāyaṇā.
5.1Phalānamiva pakkānaṁ,5.2niccaṁ patanato bhayaṁ;5.3Evaṁ jātāna maccānaṁ,5.4nicca maraṇato bhayaṁ.
6.1Sāyameke na dissanti,6.2pāto diṭṭhā bahujjanā;6.3Pāto eke na dissanti,6.4sāyaṁ diṭṭhā bahujjanā.
7.1Paridevayamāno ce,7.2kiñcidatthaṁ udabbahe;7.3Sammūḷho hiṁsamattānaṁ,7.4kayirā taṁ vicakkhaṇo.
8.1Kiso vivaṇṇo bhavati,8.2hiṁsamattānamattano;8.3Na tena petā pālenti,8.4niratthā paridevanā.
9.1Yathā saraṇamādittaṁ,9.2vārinā parinibbaye;9.3Evampi dhīro sutavā,9.4medhāvī paṇḍito naro;9.5Khippamuppatitaṁ sokaṁ,9.6vāto tūlaṁva dhaṁsaye.
10.1Macco ekova acceti,10.2ekova jāyate kule;10.3Saṁyogaparamā tveva,10.4sambhogā sabbapāṇinaṁ.
11.1Tasmā hi dhīrassa bahussutassa,11.2Sampassato lokamimaṁ parañca;11.3Aññāya dhammaṁ hadayaṁ manañca,11.4Sokā mahantāpi na tāpayanti.
12.1Sohaṁ dassañca bhokkhañca,12.2bharissāmi ca ñātake;12.3Sesañca pālayissāmi,12.4kiccametaṁ vijānato.
13.1PTS 4.130Dasa vassasahassāni,13.2saṭṭhi vassasatāni ca;13.3Kambugīvo mahābāhu,13.4rāmo rajjamakārayī”ti.

14.1Dasarathajātakaṁ sattamaṁ.