Buddhist Birth Stories, Or, Jātaka Tales : the Oldest Collection of Folk-Lore Extant : Being the Jātakatthavannanā
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The Kshatriya caste is now predominant, I must be born in it, and Suddhodana the chief shall be my father." Thus he decided on the tribe.
Then reflecting on the Mother, he thought, " The mother of a Buddha is not eager for love, or cimning after drink, but has fulfilled the Perfections for a himdred thousand ages, and from her birth upwards has kept the five Precepts unbroken. Now this lady Maha Maya is 1 In the seas snrronnding each continent (MahadTpa) there are five hun- dred islands. See Ha...rdy's Manual of Buddhism, p. 13.
* Majjhima-desa, of which the commentator adds, " This is the country thus spoken of in the Vinaya," quoting the passage at Mahavagga, v. 13, 12, which gives the boundaries as follows : " To the E. the town Kajaggala, and beyond itMahasala; to the S.E. the river SalalavatI; to the S. the town Setakannika; to the W. the brahman town and district Thuna; and to the N. the Usiraddhaja Mountain." These are different from the boundaries of the Madhya Desa of later Brahminical literature, on which see Lassen's 'Indische Alterthumskunde,' vol.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
The Kshatriya caste is now predominant, I must be born in it, and Suddhodana the chief shall be my father." Thus he decided on the tribe.
Then reflecting on the Mother, he thought, " The mother of a Buddha is not eager for love, or cimning after drink, but has fulfilled the Perfections for a himdred thousand ages, and from her birth upwards has kept the five Precepts unbroken. Now this lady Maha Maya is 1 In the seas snrronnding each continent (MahadTpa) there are five hun- dred islands. See Ha...rdy's Manual of Buddhism, p. 13.
* Majjhima-desa, of which the commentator adds, " This is the country thus spoken of in the Vinaya," quoting the passage at Mahavagga, v. 13, 12, which gives the boundaries as follows : " To the E. the town Kajaggala, and beyond itMahasala; to the S.E. the river SalalavatI; to the S. the town Setakannika; to the W. the brahman town and district Thuna; and to the N. the Usiraddhaja Mountain." These are different from the boundaries of the Madhya Desa of later Brahminical literature, on which see Lassen's 'Indische Alterthumskunde,' vol.
What to read after Buddhist Birth Stories, Or, Jātaka Tales : the Oldest Collection of Folk-Lore Extant : Being the Jātakatthavannanā?
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