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Kiṃchanda Jātaka

Jātaka

一度の慈善行為への報いとして、昼は苦しみ夜は栄華を交互に受ける身に生まれ変わった腐敗した司祭についての本生譚で、彼の魔法のマンゴー林を旧主の王が訪れるという話であり、布薩を守るある在家信者たちに説かれた。

A chaplain of the king of Bārāṇasī, who took bribes and gave false judgments, is reborn to a state of suffering all day, but as a result of having given a mango fruit to a woman who was keeping the fast, he enjoys great glory throughout the night in a charming mango-grove. His king, who had become an ascetic, eats a mango which had been carried by the river from this grove, and wishes for some more. He is transported by a river nymph (Uppalavaṇṇā of this age) to the mango-grove, where he hears from his erstwhile chaplain the story of his alternate bliss and misery. The Buddha related the story to some of his lay disciples who were keeping the fast (J.v.1 ff). The king is identified with the Bodhisatta.

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