Pāli Dictionary

kokilajātaka

Part of speech

noun · neuter


general

  • 第331號本生經(杜鵑本生)

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

Encyclopedia

  • 一則本生故事,講一位話多的國王被大臣以一則寓言治癒——一隻烏鴉養大一隻杜鵑雛鳥,卻因它未到時節亂叫而將其啄死,喻不識時宜多言者的下場,是佛陀就比丘 Kokālika 所說。

  • 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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