Pāli Dictionary

kokilajātaka

Part of speech

noun · neuter


general

  • Jātaka 331 (the Kokila Jātaka; the Cuckoo Jātaka)

Encyclopedia

  • A birth story about a talkative king who is cured of his habit when his minister points to a crow that fostered and then killed a cuckoo chick for crying out of season, comparing the fate of the chattering to that of the cuckoo, told in reference to the monk Kokālika.

Ja 331

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