Index Jataka Stories:
no. 455 - 510
translated for Pali into English by
W.H.D. Rouse
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Jataka 455 - 463   

  • XI Ekādasakanipāto


Jataka 464 - 473   

  • XII. Dvādasakanipāto


Jataka 474 - 483   

  • XIII. Terasakanipāto


  • J 474: Amba-Jātaka. (Ambajātakaṃ) {Sutta: J iv 207|J 474|J 474} {Vaṇṇanā: atta. J 474|atta. J 474} [Rouse].
    Occasion: not avaliable in English. Story: How a man learnt a charm for growing fruit out of due season, and how he forgot it because he was false to his teacher.
  • J 475: Phandana-Jātaka. (Endanajātakaṃ) {Sutta: J iv 211|J 475|J 475} {Vaṇṇanā: atta. J 475|atta. J 475} [Rouse].
    Occasion: not avaliable in English. Story: Of a lion which plotted to get a tree cut down, and how he was outwitted by the deity of the tree.
  • J 476: Javana-Haṁsa-Jātaka. (Javanahaṃsajātakaṃ) {Sutta: J iv 218|J 476|J 476} {Vaṇṇanā: atta. J 476|atta. J 476} [Rouse].
    Occasion: not avaliable in English. Story: How a royal goose and a human king made fast friends; how the goose saved two foolish geese which flew a race with the sun, and of other his marvellous feats.
  • J 477: Culla-Nārada-Jātaka. (Cullanāradajātakaṃ) {Sutta: J iv 223|J 477|J 477} {Vaṇṇanā: atta. J 477|atta. J 477} [Rouse].
    Occasion: not avaliable in English. Story: How an ascetic was tempted in the flesh, and how his father guided him by good counsel.
  • J 478: Dūta-Jātaka. (Dutajātakaṃ) {Sutta: J iv 227|J 478|J 478} {Vaṇṇanā: atta. J 478|atta. J 478} [Rouse].
    Occasion: not avaliable in English. Story: How a pupil got gold to pay his teacher withal by meditating upon a river bank.
  • J 479: Kāliṅga-Bodhi-Jātaka. (Kāliṅgabodhijātakaṃ) {Sutta: J iv 236|J 479|J 479} {Vaṇṇanā: atta. J 479|atta. J 479} [Rouse].
    Occasion: not avaliable in English. Story: Of a prince who dwelt in a forest, and how he fell in love with a lady by seeing flowers which she dropt into a river; how the prince became universal monarch, and what befel him at the great bo-tree.
  • J 480: Akitta-Jātaka. (Akittijātakaṃ) {Sutta: J iv 241|J 480|J 480} {Vaṇṇanā: atta. J 480|atta. J 480} [Rouse].
    Occasion: not avaliable in English. Story: How a king distributed all his treasure in alms, and with his sister retired to the forest; how he went further, and his sister sought him.
  • J 481: Takkāriya-Jātaka (Takkāriyajātakaṃ) {Sutta: J iv 254|J 481|J 481} {Vaṇṇanā: atta. J 481|atta. J 481} [Rouse].
    Occasion: not avaliable in English. Story: How a brahmin's wife was of lewd behaviour, and the husband would have killed her paramour, by sacrificing him in the foundation of a gate; how by talking too soon he nearly met this fate himself, but was admonished by a pupil who told him stories; of a young man who was ill entreated in a brothel, of a bird which came to grief by interfering in others' business, of four men who were killed in trying to save another, of a goat which found the knife that was to kill her, of two fairies who knew when to be silent. After these tales were told he saved the man's life.
  • J 482: Ruru-Jātaka. (Rūrumigajātakaṃ) {Sutta: J iv 262|J 482|J 482} {Vaṇṇanā: atta. J 482|atta. J 482} [Rouse].
    Occasion: not avaliable in English. Story: Of a rich spend-all who cast himself away in the Ganges; how a deer saved him, and he repaid the service by betraying the deer to capture, but his aim was frustrated, and safety proclaimed for all deer.
  • J 483: Sarabha-Miga-Jātaka. (Sarabhamigajātakaṃ) {Sutta: J iv 274|J 483|J 483} {Vaṇṇanā: atta. J 483|atta. J 483} [Rouse].
    Occasion: not avaliable in English. Story: How a king went hunting, and in chasing after a stag which passed him fell into a pit and by the very stag was rescued; and how a chaplain put two and two together and made twenty.

Jataka 484 - 496   

  • XIV. Pakiṇṇakanipāto


Jataka 497 - 510   

  • XV. Vīsatinipāto


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