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  • 身なりの整わない太った女性が慎ましく人目を避けて用を足す様子を窓から見た王が、その品行に感銘を受けて彼女を正妃とし、彼女が転輪王となる運命の息子を産んだという本生譚で、僧たちが驚くのに、なぜ王子がその平凡で恰幅の良い妻を愛したのかを説明するため、あるリッチャヴィ族の王子の妻について説かれた。

  • A Jātaka about a king who, observing from his window how modestly and discreetly an unkempt, overweight woman attends to a private need, is so impressed by her decency that he makes her his chief queen and she bears him a son destined for universal kingship, told about the plain, heavyset wife of a Licchavi prince to explain why he loved her despite the monks’ surprise.

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