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273. Kacchapa Jātaka

Ja 273

A winding path through a wildflower meadow.

This edition includes the canonical verses together with the later commentarial stories.

PTS vp Pali 359 “Who is the one who brings the food”—This story the Master told during a stay in Jetavana, how a quarrel was made up between two magnates of the king’s court in Kosala. The circumstances have been told in the Second Book.

The Jataka was not translated in the original, due to its sexual content.

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Translation by W.H.D. Rouse · SuttaCentral · Public domain

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The Jātaka, or Stories of the Buddha’s Former Births, edited by E.B. Cowell, published by The Cambridge University Press.

  • Vol. 1, translated by Robert Chalmers, 1895.
  • Vol. 2, translated by W.H.D. Rouse, 1895.
  • Vol. 3, translated by H.T. Francis and R.A. Neil, 1897.
  • Vol. 4, translated by W.H.D. Rouse, 1901.
  • Vol. 5, translated by H.T. Francis, 1905.
  • Vol. 6, translated by E.B. Cowell and W.H.D. Rouse, 1907.

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