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The Five-Precept Sabbath

Pañcuposathikajātaka

“Thou art content”—This story the Master told while dwelling at Jetavana, about five hundred lay Brethren who were under the Sabbath vows. At that time they say that the Master, seated upon the Buddha’s glorious seat, in the Hall of Truth, in the midst of folk of all the four kinds, looking around upon the gathering with a gentle heart, perceived that this day the teaching would turn on the tale of the lay Brethren. Then he addressed these, and said, “Have the lay Brethren taken upon them the Sabbath vows?” “Yes, Sir, they have,” was the answer. “It was well done, this sabbath celebration was the practice of wise men of old: the wise men of old, I say, kept the sabbath celebration in order to subdue the sins of passion and lust.” Then at their request he told a story of the past.

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  • 0.1Jātaka
  • 0.2Pakiṇṇakanipāta
  • 0.3Sālikedāravagga

0.47. Pañcuposathikajātaka

1.1PTS 4.329“Appossukko dāni tuvaṁ kapota,1.2Vihaṅgama na tava bhojanattho;1.3Khudaṁ pipāsaṁ adhivāsayanto,1.4Kasmā bhavaṁposathiko kapota”.

2.1“Ahaṁ pure giddhigato kapotiyā,2.2Asmiṁ padesasmimubho ramāma;2.3Athaggahī sākuṇiko kapotiṁ,2.4Akāmako tāya vinā ahosiṁ.

3.1Nānābhavā vippayogena tassā,3.2Manomayaṁ vedana vedayāmi;3.3Tasmā ahaṁposathaṁ pālayāmi,3.4Rāgo mamaṁ mā punarāgamāsi”.

4.1PTS 4.330“Anujjugāmī uragā dujivha,4.2Dāṭhāvudho ghoravisosi sappa;4.3Khudaṁ pipāsaṁ adhivāsayanto,4.4Kasmā bhavaṁposathiko nu dīgha.

5.1Usabho ahū balavā gāmikassa,5.2Calakkakū vaṇṇabalūpapanno;5.3So maṁ akkami taṁ kupito aḍaṁsiṁ,5.4Dukkhābhitunno maraṇaṁ upāgā.

6.1Tato janā nikkhamitvāna gāmā,6.2Kanditvā roditvā apakkamiṁsu;6.3Tasmā ahaṁposathaṁ pālayāmi,6.4Kodho mamaṁ mā punarāgamāsi.

7.1Matāna maṁsāni bahū susāne,7.2Manuññarūpaṁ tava bhojane taṁ;7.3Khudaṁ pipāsaṁ adhivāsayanto,7.4Kasmā bhavaṁposathiko siṅgāla.

8.1Pavisi kucchiṁ mahato gajassa,8.2Kuṇape rato hatthimaṁsesu giddho;8.3Uṇho ca vāto tikhiṇā ca rasmiyo,8.4Te sosayuṁ tassa karīsamaggaṁ.

9.1Kiso ca paṇḍū ca ahaṁ bhadante,9.2Na me ahū nikkhamanāya maggo;9.3Mahā ca megho sahasā pavassi,9.4So temayī tassa karīsamaggaṁ.

10.1PTS 4.331Tato ahaṁ nikkhamisaṁ bhadante,10.2Cando yathā rāhumukhā pamutto;10.3Tasmā ahaṁposathaṁ pālayāmi,10.4Lobho mamaṁ mā punarāgamāsi.

11.1Vammīkathūpasmiṁ kipillikāni,11.2Nippothayanto tuvaṁ pure carāsi;11.3Khudaṁ pipāsaṁ adhivāsayanto,11.4Kasmā bhavaṁposathiko nu accha.

12.1Sakaṁ niketaṁ atihīḷayāno,12.2Atricchatā mallagāmaṁ agacchiṁ;12.3Tato janā nikkhamitvāna gāmā,12.4Kodaṇḍakena paripothayiṁsu maṁ.

13.1So bhinnasīso ruhiramakkhitaṅgo,13.2Paccāgamāsiṁ sakaṁ niketaṁ;13.3Tasmā ahaṁposathaṁ pālayāmi,13.4Atricchatā mā punarāgamāsi”.

14.1“Yaṁ no apucchittha tuvaṁ bhadante,14.2Sabbeva byākarimha yathāpajānaṁ;14.3Mayampi pucchāma tuvaṁ bhadante,14.4Kasmā bhavaṁposathiko nu brahme”.

15.1PTS 4.332“Anūpalitto mama assamamhi,15.2Paccekabuddho muhuttaṁ nisīdi;15.3So maṁ avedī gatimāgatiñca,15.4Nāmañca gottaṁ caraṇañca sabbaṁ.

16.1Evampahaṁ vandi na tassa pāde,16.2Na cāpi naṁ mānagatena pucchiṁ;16.3Tasmā ahaṁposathaṁ pālayāmi,16.4Māno mamaṁ mā punarāgamāsī”ti.

17.1Pañcuposathikajātakaṁ sattamaṁ.