Pāli Dictionary
kokilajātaka
Part of speech
noun · neuter
general
第331号本生经(杜鹃本生)
Jātaka 331 (the Kokila Jātaka; the Cuckoo Jātaka)
Encyclopedia
Kokila Jātaka
Jātaka一则本生故事,讲一位话多的国王被大臣以一则寓言治愈——一只乌鸦养大一只杜鹃雏鸟,却因它未到时节乱叫而将其啄死,喻不识时宜多言者的下场,是佛陀就比丘 Kokālika 所说。
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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