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The Rice-Field

Sālikedārajātaka

“The crop of rice”—This was a story the Master told while dwelling at Jetavana, about a Brother who supported his mother. The occasion will be explained in the Sama Birth. Then the Master sent for this Brother, and asked him, “Is what I hear true, Brother, that you support lay folks?” “It is true, Sir.” “Who are they?” “My mother and father, Sir.” Said the Master, “Well done, Brother! Wise men of old, even when embodied as the lower animals, having been born as parrots even, when their parents grew old laid them in a nest and fed them with food which they brought in their own beaks.” So saying, he told a story of the past.

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  • 0.1Jātaka
  • 0.2Pakiṇṇakanipāta
  • 0.3Sālikedāravagga

0.41. Sālikedārajātaka

1.1PTS 4.278“Sampannaṁ sālikedāraṁ,1.2suvā bhuñjanti kosiya;1.3Paṭivedemi te brahme,1.4na ne vāretumussahe.

2.1Eko ca tattha sakuṇo,2.2yo nesaṁ sabbasundaro;2.3Bhutvā sāliṁ yathākāmaṁ,2.4tuṇḍenādāya gacchati”.

3.1“Oḍḍentu vāḷapāsāni,3.2yathā bajjhetha so dijo;3.3Jīvañca naṁ gahetvāna,3.4ānayehi mamantike”.

4.1PTS 4.279“Ete bhutvā pivitvā ca,4.2pakkamanti vihaṅgamā;4.3Eko baddhosmi pāsena,4.4kiṁ pāpaṁ pakataṁ mayā”.

5.1“Udaraṁ nūna aññesaṁ,5.2suva accodaraṁ tava;5.3Bhutvā sāliṁ yathākāmaṁ,5.4tuṇḍenādāya gacchasi.

6.1Koṭṭhaṁ nu tattha pūresi,6.2suva veraṁ nu te mayā;6.3Puṭṭho me samma akkhāhi,6.4kuhiṁ sāliṁ nidāhasi”.

7.1PTS 4.280“Na me veraṁ tayā saddhiṁ,7.2koṭṭho mayhaṁ na vijjati;7.3Iṇaṁ muñcāmiṇaṁ dammi,7.4sampatto koṭasimbaliṁ;7.5Nidhimpi tattha nidahāmi,7.6evaṁ jānāhi kosiya”.

8.1“Kīdisaṁ te iṇadānaṁ,8.2iṇamokkho ca kīdiso;8.3Nidhinidhānamakkhāhi,8.4atha pāsā pamokkhasi”.

9.1“Ajātapakkhā taruṇā,9.2puttakā mayha kosiya;9.3Te maṁ bhatā bharissanti,9.4tasmā tesaṁ iṇaṁ dade.

10.1Mātā pitā ca me vuddhā,10.2jiṇṇakā gatayobbanā;10.3Tesaṁ tuṇḍena hātūna,10.4muñce pubbakataṁ iṇaṁ.

11.1Aññepi tattha sakuṇā,11.2khīṇapakkhā sudubbalā;11.3Tesaṁ puññatthiko dammi,11.4taṁ nidhiṁ āhu paṇḍitā.

12.1Īdisaṁ me iṇadānaṁ,12.2iṇamokkho ca īdiso;12.3Nidhinidhānamakkhāmi,12.4evaṁ jānāhi kosiya”.

13.1“Bhaddako vatayaṁ pakkhī,13.2dijo paramadhammiko;13.3Ekaccesu manussesu,13.4ayaṁ dhammo na vijjati.

14.1PTS 4.281Bhuñja sāliṁ yathākāmaṁ,14.2saha sabbehi ñātibhi;14.3Punāpi suva passemu,14.4piyaṁ me tava dassanaṁ”.

15.1“Bhuttañca pītañca tavassamamhi,15.2Ratī ca no kosiya te sakāse;15.3Nikkhittadaṇḍesu dadāhi dānaṁ,15.4Jiṇṇe ca mātāpitaro bharassu”.

16.1“Lakkhī vata me udapādi ajja,16.2Yo addasāsiṁ pavaraṁ dijānaṁ;16.3Suvassa sutvāna subhāsitāni,16.4Kāhāmi puññāni anappakāni”.

17.1PTS 4.282So kosiyo attamano udaggo,17.2Annañca pānañcabhisaṅkharitvā;17.3Annena pānena pasannacitto,17.4Santappayi samaṇabrāhmaṇe cāti.

18.1Sālikedārajātakaṁ paṭhamaṁ.