Buddhist Birth Stories: Or Jātaka Tales. The Oldest Collection of Folk-lore Extant: Being the Jātakatthavannanā, Volume 1Viggo Fausbøll, Michel Viggo Fausböll |
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Buddhist Birth Stories : Or, Jataka Tales: The Oldest Collection of Folk ... T. W. Rhys Davids No preview available - 2017 |
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angels Arahats Arahatship ascetic asked attain became become a Buddha beholding Benares Birth Stories Blessed Bo-tree Bodhisatta Bodisat born Brahman brother Buddhahood Buddhaship Buddhist called charioteer chief disciples chief female disciples connexion cubits high deer Deva-datta Devadatta Dhammapada Dipankara discourse earth Elder elephant fables father Fausböll five hundred flowers four future Buddha gave give hand heard heart heaven hundred thousand Introductory Story Jātaka Jātaka Book Jetavana Kalilag and Damnag kalpa Kanthaka Kapilavastu Kassapa king leagues Little Roadling living Lord Magadha Māra Master measure of rice mendicants merchant mighty milk-rice monastery monks were present mother Nāga Nirvana Pāli Prince Rajagaha reached robes round Sage Sakka Sariputta Savatthi saying seat servitor seven shalt be Buddha Siddhattha stanza Suddhodana Tantra Tathāgata Teacher things thou shalt thought thousand worlds three assemblies told took translation tree Truth uttered verse vows words
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Page 347 - A knowledge of the commonplace, at least, of Oriental literature, philosophy, and religion is as necessary to the general reader of the present day as an acquaintance with the Latin and Greek classics was a generation or so ago. Immense strides have been made within the present century in these branches of learning...
Page 231 - If I be a man of God, let fire come down from heaven, and consume thee and thy fifty.
Page 349 - I was one of the class to whom the work was originally given in the form of academic lectures. At their first appearance they were by far the most learned and able treatment of their subject ; and with their recent additions they still maintain decidedly the same rank.
Page xx - In this chariot, O charioteer, sitteth the lord over the kingdom of Kosala, the great king Mallika. Take thy carriage out of the way, and make room for the chariot of our king...
Page lxxxii - Jataka book we have, then, a priceless record of the earliest imaginative literature of our race ; and ... it presents to us a nearly complete picture of the social life and customs and popular beliefs of the common people of Aryan tribes, closely related to ourselves, just as they were passing through the first stages of civilisation."— St.
Page 316 - ' the heap of fish-bones lying at the root of yonder "Varana-tree ! Just as I have eaten those fish, every " ' one of them, just so I will devour you as well !' " ' Ah ! those fishes got eaten through their own " 'stupidity,' answered the crab; 'but I'm not going
Page 14 - ... when he leaves his lair, as the delivery of a woman with child, as all these things are sure and certain, even so the word of the Buddhas is sure and cannot fail.