Jataka 1 - 10   

Paṭhamo bhāgo

• I. Ekakanipāto

• 1. Apaṇṇa kavaggo

• J 001: Apaṇṇaka-Jātaka (Apaṇṇakajātakaṃ) {Sutta: J i 109|J 001|J 001} {Vaṇṇanā: atta. J 001|atta. J 001} [Chalmers].
  Occasion: not avaliable in English. Story: Two merchants travel with caravans across a desert. One, beguiled by goblins, throws away his drinking-water in the desert and is devoured with all his people and cattle; the other completes his journey safely.
• J 002: Vaṇṇupatha-Jātaka (Vaṇṇupathajātakaṃ) {Sutta: J i 109|J 002|J 002} {Vaṇṇanā: atta. J 002|atta. J 002} [Chalmers].
  Occasion: not avaliable in English. Story: Travelling across a desert, a caravan through mistake throws away its water, &c. In their despair the leader has a well dug, till far down water is found, and perseverance saves the caravan from death.
• J 003: Serivāṇija-Jātaka (Serivāvāṇijajātakaṃ) {Sutta: J i 113|J 003|J 003} {Vaṇṇanā: atta. J 003|atta. J 003} [Chalmers].
  Occasion: not avaliable in English. Story: Two hawkers are successively offered by its unwitting owners a golden bowl. The greedy hawker over-reaches himself, whilst the honest one is richly rewarded.
• J 004: Cullaka-Seṭṭhi-Jātaka (Cullaseṭṭhijātakaṃ) {Sutta: J i 122|J 004|J 004} {Vaṇṇanā: atta. J 004|atta. J 004} [Chalmers].
  Occasion: not avaliable in English. Story: A young man picks up a dead mouse which he sells, and works up this capital till he becomes rich.
• J 005: Taṇḍulanāli-Jātaka (Taṇḍulanāḷijātakaṃ) {Sutta: J i 122|J 005|J 005} {Vaṇṇanā: atta. J 005|atta. J 005} [Chalmers].
  Occasion: not avaliable in English. Story: An incompetent valuer declares 500 horses worth a measure of rice, which measure. of rice in turn he is led to declare worth all Benares.
• J 006: Devadhamma-Jātaka (Devadhammajātakaṃ) {Sutta: J i 129|J 006|J 006} {Vaṇṇanā: atta. J 006|atta. J 006} [Chalmers].
  Occasion: not avaliable in English. Story: Two princes going down to a haunted pool are seized by an ogre; the third, by correctly defining 'godlike,' saves his brothers.
• J 007: Kaṭṭhahāri-Jātaka (Kaṭṭhahārijātakaṃ) {Sutta: J i 135|J 007|J 007} {Vaṇṇanā: atta. J 007|atta. J 007} [Chalmers].
  Occasion: not avaliable in English. Story: A king refuses to recognize his son by a chance amour; the mother throws the child into the air, praying that, if he be not the king's son, he may be killed by his fall. The child rests in mid-air, and the king recognizes him as his son.
• J 008: Gāmani-Jātaka (Gāmaṇijātakaṃ) {Sutta: J i 136|J 008|J 008} {Vaṇṇanā: atta. J 008|atta. J 008} [Chalmers].
  Occasion: not avaliable in English. Story: 0
• J 009: Makhādeva-Jātaka (Makhādevajātakaṃ) {Sutta: J i 138|J 009|J 009} {Vaṇṇanā: atta. J 009|atta. J 009} [Chalmers].
  Occasion: not avaliable in English. Story: A king, finding a grey hair in his head, renounces his throne to prepare as a hermit for death.
• J 010: Sukhavihāri-Jātaka (Sukhavihārijātakaṃ) {Sutta: J i 141|J 010|J 010} {Vaṇṇanā: atta. J 010|atta. J 010} [Chalmers].
  Occasion: not avaliable in English. Story: A king who becomes a Brother proclaims the happiness he has found.

Jataka 11 - 20   

• 2. Sīlavaggo

  
  

• J 011: Lakkhaṇa-Jātaka (Lakkhaṇamigajātakaṃ) {Sutta: J i 144|J 011|J 011} {Vaṇṇanā: atta. J 011|atta. J 011} [Chalmers].
  Occasion: not avaliable in English. Story: Two stags; one through stupidity loses all his following, whilst the other brings his herd home in safety.
• J 012: Nigrodhamiga-Jātaka (Nigrodhamigajātakaṃ) {Sutta: J i 153|J 012|J 012} {Vaṇṇanā: atta. J 012|atta. J 012} [Chalmers].
  Occasion: not avaliable in English. Story: Deer in a royal park, to avoid being hunted, decide that lots shall be cast to select a daily victim. The lot having fallen on a doe big with young, the king of the deer offers himself as a substitute at the block and saves not only his own life but also the lives of all living creatures.
• J 013: Kaṇḍina-Jātaka (Gaṇḍinajātakaṃ) {Sutta: J i 155|J 013|J 013} {Vaṇṇanā: atta. J 013|atta. J 013} [Chalmers].
  Occasion: not avaliable in English. Story: A mountain-stag, enamoured of a doe, is by her allowed to fall prey to a hunter; the doe escapes.
• J 014: Vātamiga-Jātaka (Vātamigaṃjātakaṃ) {Sutta: J i 158|J 014|J 014} {Vaṇṇanā: atta. J 014|atta. J 014} [Chalmers].
  Occasion: not avaliable in English. Story: By a bait of honeyed grass a wild antelope is lured by slow degrees into a palace.
• J 015: Kharādiya-Jātaka (Kharādiyajātakaṃ) {Sutta: J i 160|J 015|J 015} {Vaṇṇanā: atta. J 015|atta. J 015} [Chalmers].
  Occasion: not avaliable in English. Story: A deer which would not come to be taught the ruses of deer, is caught in a trap.
• J 016: Tipallattha-Miga-Jātaka (Tipallatthamigajātakaṃ) {Sutta: J i 163|J 016|J 016} {Vaṇṇanā: atta. J 016|atta. J 016} [Chalmers].
  Occasion: not avaliable in English. Story: A deer which had learnt the ruses of deer, being caught in a snare, effects its escape.
• J 017: Māluta-Jātaka (Mālutajātakaṃ) {Sutta: J i 165|J 017|J 017} {Vaṇṇanā: atta. J 017|atta. J 017} [Chalmers].
  Occasion: not avaliable in English. Story: A tiger and a lion dispute whether it is the dark or the light half of the month which is cold.
• J 018: Matakabhatta-Jātaka (Matakabhattajātakaṃ) {Sutta: J i 168|J 018|J 018} {Vaṇṇanā: atta. J 018|atta. J 018} [Chalmers].
  Occasion: not avaliable in English. Story: A goat, which was to be sacrificed by a brahmin, shows signs of great joy and of great sorrow. It explains the reason for each emotion.
• J 019: Āyācitabhatta-Jātaka (Āyācitabhattajātakaṃ) {Sutta: J i 169|J 019|J 019} {Vaṇṇanā: atta. J 019|atta. J 019} [Chalmers].
  Occasion: not avaliable in English. Story: Offering sacrifice to get release from a vow, is not true 'Release.'
• J 020: Naḷapāna-Jātaka (Naḷapānajātakaṃ) {Sutta: J i 171|J 020|J 020} {Vaṇṇanā: atta. J 020|atta. J 020} [Chalmers].
  Occasion: not avaliable in English. Story: Thirsty monkeys came to a pool haunted by an ogre. Their leader miraculously blows the knots out of canes and with these the monkeys safely slake their thirst.

Jataka 21 - 30   

• 3. Kuruṅgavaggo

  
  

• J 021: Kuruṅga-Jātaka (Kuruṅgamigajātakaṃ) {Sutta: J i 177|J 021|J 021} {Vaṇṇanā: atta. J 021|atta. J 021} [Chalmers].
  Occasion: not avaliable in English. Story: A hunter up a tree throws down fruits to lure a deer within aim. The deer detects the artifice and escapes.
• J 022: Kukkura-Jātaka (Kukkurajātakaṃ) {Sutta: J i 177|J 022|J 022} {Vaṇṇanā: atta. J 022|atta. J 022} [Chalmers].
  Occasion: not avaliable in English. Story: Carriage-straps having been gnawed by palace dogs, a king orders all other dogs to be killed. The leader of a pack of dogs reveals the truth by causing an emetic to be applied to the royal dogs of the palace.
• J 023: Bhojājānīya-Jātaka (Bhojājāniyajātakaṃ) {Sutta: J i 180|J 023|J 023} {Vaṇṇanā: atta. J 023|atta. J 023} [Chalmers].
  Occasion: not avaliable in English. Story: A charger falls wounded when his rider has captured six out of seven kings. Seeing that a hack is being saddled in his place, the charger asks to be saddled again, makes a last effort and dies in the hour of victory.
• J 024: Ājañña-Jātaka (Ājaññajātakaṃ) {Sutta: J i 181|J 024|J 024} {Vaṇṇanā: atta. J 024|atta. J 024} [Chalmers].
  Occasion: not avaliable in English. Story: A story similar to the above about two chariot horses, one of whom is wounded and is about to be replaced by a sorry beast.
• J 025: Tittha-Jātaka (Titthajātakaṃ) {Sutta: J i 185|J 025|J 025} {Vaṇṇanā: atta. J 025|atta. J 025} [Chalmers].
  Occasion: not avaliable in English. Story: A royal charger refuses to take his bath because a hack had bathed at the spot.
• J 026: Mahilāmukha-Jātaka (Mahilāmukhajātakaṃ) {Sutta: J i 188|J 026|J 026} {Vaṇṇanā: atta. J 026|atta. J 026} [Chalmers].
  Occasion: not avaliable in English. Story: An elephant listening to robbers' talk, kills his mahout; by listening to virtuous converse he becomes good again.
• J 027: Abhiṇha-Jātaka (Abhiṇhājātakaṃ) {Sutta: J i 190|J 027|J 027} {Vaṇṇanā: atta. J 027|atta. J 027} [Chalmers].
  Occasion: not avaliable in English. Story: An elephant, missing his playmate, the dog, refuses to eat until the dog is restored to him.
• J 028: Nandivisāla-Jātaka (Nandrivisālajātakaṃ) {Sutta: J i 193|J 028|J 028} {Vaṇṇanā: atta. J 028|atta. J 028} [Chalmers].
  Occasion: not avaliable in English. Story: How by incivil words to his bull a brahmin lost a bet, which by civility to the animal he afterwards won.
• J 029: Kaṇha-Jātaka (Kaṇhajātakaṃ) {Sutta: J i 196|J 029|J 029} {Vaṇṇanā: atta. J 029|atta. J 029} [Chalmers].
  Occasion: not avaliable in English. Story: How a bull drew 500 carts in order to earn money for his poor mistress.
• J 030: Muṇika-Jātaka (Munikajātakaṃ) {Sutta: J i 197|J 030|J 030} {Vaṇṇanā: atta. J 030|atta. J 030} [Chalmers].
  Occasion: not avaliable in English. Story: A hard-worked ox is discontented with his own hard fare, when he sees a lazy pig being fattened up. Another ox explains that the pig is being fattened to be eaten; and the discontented ox accepts his position.

Jataka 31 - 40   

• 4. Kulāvakavaggo

  
  

• J 031: Kulāvaka-Jātaka (Kulāvakajātakaṃ) {Sutta: J i 207|J 031|J 031} {Vaṇṇanā: atta. J 031|atta. J 031} [Chalmers].
  Occasion: not avaliable in English. Story: Through the practice of goodness tending to the diminution of crime in his village, a man is falsely accused by the headman and sentenced to be trampled to death by elephants. The elephants refuse to harm him. Being released, he builds a caravansery, in which good work (against his wish) three out of four of his wives take part: At death he is reborn as Sakka. His three good wives are reborn in heaven. He seeks out the fourth and exhorts her to goodness. As a crane she refuses to eat a fish which shewed signs of life; reborn a woman, she is eventually born a Titan and espoused by Sakka.
• J 032: Nacca-Jātaka (Naccajātakaṃ) {Sutta: J i 209|J 032|J 032} {Vaṇṇanā: atta. J 032|atta. J 032} [Chalmers].
  Occasion: not avaliable in English. Story: The animals choose kings. The daughter of the king of the birds (the Golden Mallard) chooses the peacock for her husband. In dancing for joy the peacock exposes himself and is rejected.
• J 033: Sammodamāna-Jātaka (Sammodamānajātakaṃ) {Sutta: J i 209|J 033|J 033} {Vaṇṇanā: atta. J 033|atta. J 033} [Chalmers].
  Occasion: not avaliable in English. Story: Quails caught in a net, rise up in a body with the net and escape several times. After a time they quarrel and are caught.
• J 034: Maccha-Jātaka (Macchājātakaṃ) {Sutta: J i 214|J 034|J 034} {Vaṇṇanā: atta. J 034|atta. J 034} [Chalmers].
  Occasion: not avaliable in English. Story: An uxorious fish being caught, fears his wife may misconstrue his absence. A brahmin sets him free.
• J 035: Vaṭṭaka-Jātaka (Vaṭṭakajātakaṃ) {Sutta: J i 214|J 035|J 035} {Vaṇṇanā: atta. J 035|atta. J 035} [Chalmers].
  Occasion: not avaliable in English. Story: A baby-quail is about to be engulfed in a jungle-fire, when by an 'Act of Truth' he quenches the flames round him.
• J 036: Sakuṇa-Jātaka (Sakuṇajātakaṃ) {Sutta: J i 216|J 036|J 036} {Vaṇṇanā: atta. J 036|atta. J 036} [Chalmers].
  Occasion: not avaliable in English. Story: A tree in which birds dwell is grinding its boughs together and beginning to smoke. The wise birds fly away; the foolish ones are burnt.
• J 037: Tittira-Jātaka (Tittirajātakaṃ) {Sutta: J i 223|J 037|J 037} {Vaṇṇanā: atta. J 037|atta. J 037} [Chalmers].
  Occasion: not avaliable in English. Story: A partridge, a monkey and an elephant living together, decide to obey the senior. To prove seniority each gives his earliest recollection.
• J 038: Baka-Jātaka (Bakajātakaṃ) {Sutta: J i 226|J 038|J 038} {Vaṇṇanā: atta. J 038|atta. J 038} [Chalmers].
  Occasion: not avaliable in English. Story: A crane by pretending that he was taking them to a big lake, devours all the fish of a pond. A wise crab nips the bird's head off.
• J 039: Nanda-Jātaka (Nandajātakaṃ) {Sutta: J i 233|J 039|J 039} {Vaṇṇanā: atta. J 039|atta. J 039} [Chalmers].
  Occasion: not avaliable in English. Story: How a slave was made to tell where his master's father had buried his hoard.
• J 040: Khadiraṅgāra-Jātaka (Khadiraṅgārajātakaṃ) {Sutta: J i 233|J 040|J 040} {Vaṇṇanā: atta. J 040|atta. J 040} [Chalmers].
  Occasion: not avaliable in English. Story: In order to stop a Treasurer from giving alms to a Pacceka Buddha, Māra interposes a yawning gulf of fire. Undaunted, the Treasurer steps forward, to be borne up by a lotus from which he tenders his alms to Māra's discomfiture.

Jataka 41 - 50   

• 5. Atthakāmavaggo

  
  

• J 041: Losaka-Jātaka (Losakajātakaṃ) {Sutta: J i 244|J 041|J 041} {Vaṇṇanā: atta. J 041|atta. J 041} [Chalmers].
  Occasion: not avaliable in English. Story: How a Brother through jealous greed was condemned to rebirths entailing misery and hunger. Finally, when reborn a man, he is deserted by his parents and brings suffering on those around him. On board ship, he has to be cast overboard; on a raft he comes to successive island palaces of goddesses, and eventually to an ogre-island where he seizes the leg of an ogress in form of a goat. She kicks him over the sea to Benares, and he falls among the king's goats. Hoping to get back to the goddesses, he seizes a goat by the leg, only to be seized as a thief and to be condemned to death.
• J 042: Kapota-Jātaka (Kapotakajātakaṃ) {Sutta: J i 246|J 042|J 042} {Vaṇṇanā: atta. J 042|atta. J 042} [Chalmers].
  Occasion: not avaliable in English. Story: A pigeon lives in a kitchen. A greedy crow makes friends with him, and, being also housed in the kitchen, plans an attack on the victuals. The crow is tortured to death, and the pigeon flies away.
• J 043: Veḷuka-Jātaka (Veḷukajātaka) {Sutta: J i 247|J 043|J 043} {Vaṇṇanā: atta. J 043|atta. J 043} [Chalmers].
  Occasion: not avaliable in English. Story: A man rears a viper, which in the end kills its benefactor.
• J 044: Makasa-Jātaka (Makasajātakaṃ) {Sutta: J i 249|J 044|J 044} {Vaṇṇanā: atta. J 044|atta. J 044} [Chalmers].
  Occasion: not avaliable in English. Story: A mosquito settles on a man's head. To kill it, his foolish son strikes the man's head with an axe with fatal effect.
• J 045: Rohiṇī-Jātaka (Rohiṇijātakaṃ) {Sutta: J i 251|J 045|J 045} {Vaṇṇanā: atta. J 045|atta. J 045} [Chalmers].
  Occasion: not avaliable in English. Story: Like the last; a pestle takes the place of the axe.
• J 046: Ārāmadūsaka-Jātaka (Ārāmadusakajātakaṃ) {Sutta: J i 251|J 046|J 046} {Vaṇṇanā: atta. J 046|atta. J 046} [Chalmers].
  Occasion: not avaliable in English. Story: Monkeys employed to water a pleasaunce pull up the trees in order to judge by the size of the roots how much water to give. The trees die.
• J 047: Vāruṇi-Jātaka (Vāruṇidusakajātakaṃ) {Sutta: J i 252|J 047|J 047} {Vaṇṇanā: atta. J 047|atta. J 047} [Chalmers].
  Occasion: not avaliable in English. Story: Seeing customers whet their thirst with salt, a young potman mixes salt in the spirits for sale.
• J 048: Vedabbha-Jātaka (Vedabbhajātatakaṃ) {Sutta: J i 256|J 048|J 048} {Vaṇṇanā: atta. J 048|atta. J 048} [Chalmers].
  Occasion: not avaliable in English. Story: Captured by robbers, a brahmin makes treasure rain from the sky; a second band kills him because he cannot repeat the miracle. Mutual slaughter leaves only two robbers with the treasure. One poisons the other's food and is himself slain by his fellow.
• J 049: Nakkhatta-Jātaka (Nakkhattajātakaṃ) {Sutta: J i 258|J 049|J 049} {Vaṇṇanā: atta. J 049|atta. J 049} [Chalmers].
  Occasion: not avaliable in English. Story: A chaplain thwarts a marriage on the ground that the day fixed is unlucky. The bride is given to another.
• J 050: Dummedha-Jātaka (Dummedhajātakaṃ) {Sutta: J i 260|J 050|J 050} {Vaṇṇanā: atta. J 050|atta. J 050} [Chalmers].
  Occasion: not avaliable in English. Story: To put a stop to sacrifices of living creatures, a king vows to offer a holocaust of such as take life, &c. Sacrifices cease.