Pāli Dictionary

jātaka1

janroottasuffixkasuffix

Part of speech

adjective

general

  • new-born; recently born; just arisen

  • MN 34

    bhūtapubbaṃ, bhikkhave, vacchako taruṇako tāva'd'eva jātako mātugoravakena vuyhamāno, so'pi tiriyaṃ gaṅgāya sotaṃ chetvā sotthinā pāraṃ agamāsi.

jātaka2

janroottasuffixkasuffix

Part of speech

noun · neuter

Root

jan3be born; produce

doctrine

  • birth story; Jātaka tale (an account of one of the Buddha’s former lives; one of the nine kinds of canonical texts)

  • AN 4.62

    suttaṃ geyyaṃ veyyākaraṇaṃ gāthā udānaṃ itivuttakaṃ jātakaṃ abbhutadhammaṃ vedallaṃ

  • MN 22

    idha, bhikkhave, ekacce moghapurisā dhammaṃ pariyāpuṇanti, suttaṃ, geyyaṃ, veyyākaraṇaṃ, gāthaṃ, udānaṃ, itivuttakaṃ, jātakaṃ, abbhutadhammaṃ, vedallaṃ.

  • the Jātaka collection (Books 14-15 of the Khuddaka Nikāya, comprising 547 birth-story tales)

Encyclopedia

Jātaka
Text

  • The tenth book of the Khuddakanikāya, containing the canonical verses and traditional prose commentary recounting the Buddha’s former births.

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