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  • バーラーナシーの商人から始まり帝釈天として生まれ変わった先祖から続く布施深い家系の物語で、六代目の相続人ビラーラコーシヤがけちになり施し所を焼き払うも、帝釈天と親族が婆羅門に変装して彼を恥じ入らせ改心させるジャータカ

  • A Jātaka tracing a line of generous almsgivers descended from a Bārāṇasī merchant reborn as Sakka, down to the sixth heir Bilārakosiya, who turned miserly and burned the family almonry until Sakka and his kin, disguised as brahmins, shamed him into reforming.

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