The Jataka, Vol. V
Book XVIII: Story 528 — MAHABODHI-JATAKA. [*1]

fetters and chains and by sprinkling cow-dung over them, he drove them out of his kingdom. And the Bodhisatta after staying there a few days and admonishing the king, bidding him be vigilant, set off for the Himalayas and developed supernatural power arising out of mystic meditation, and so long as he lived, cultivating the Perfect States, he became a denizen of the Brahma world.

The Master here ended his lesson and saying, "Not now only, Brethren, but formerly also, the Tathagata was wise and crushed all disputants," he thus identified the Birth: "At that time the five heretics were Purana Kassapa, Makkhali Gosala, Pakudha Kaccana, Ajita Kesakambali, Nigantha Nathaputta, the tawny dog was Ananda, and the wandering mendicant Mahabodhi was I myself.

Footnotes

^116:1 Compare Jataka-Mala, XXIII. The Story of the Mahabodhi, and Digha Nikaya, II. Samanna-Phala (Dialogues of the Buddha translated by R. Davids, p. 65).

^116:2 Jataka, vol. VI. No. 546.

^117:1 ajjhupekkhati. Compare Jataka, I. 147, Cullavagga, IV. 4. 8.

^119:1 Jataka, IV. 417, "with death written on the brow."

^121:1 patigacc'eva, vl. patikacc'eva. Refer to Trenckner's Milindapanha, note 4832, pp. 421, 422. It has here the force of the Latin ultro.

^121:2 Another reading is akathetva, "without addressing a word to me."

^122:1 pattakkhandha, see note on p. 10.

^123:1 ucchedavada. Compare Vinaya Texts, II. 111, Dhamma Sangani, p. 268 of translation, and Buddhist Suttas, p. 149 (S. B. E. XI.) and Katha Vatthu, Pakarana Atthakatha, p. 6 (P. T. S. J. 1889).

^124:1 nippatibhana, cf. appatibhana, Cullavagga, IV. 4. 8.

^124:2 Reading vittasayitva for citrasayitva.

^125:1 These lines are to be found in Jataka, III. In. p. 74 (English) and vol. v. p. 113.

^125:2 Compare Katha Sarit Sagara, XII. 168, Tawney's translation, vol. I. p. 80, where as a mark of disgrace a woman's head is so shaved that five locks are left. Jataka VI. 135 shows that the cula was sometimes a mark of slavery. In Jataka V. p. 249 a little boy of poor parents is described as wearing his hair in this fashion.

^126:1 For these heretics see Hardy's Manual, p. 300, and Vinaya Texts, II. 111. Some of their names are found elsewhere with different forms, Purana, Kakudha Kaccayana and Nataputta.

BOOK XIX. SATTHINIPATA.