![]() The fifth Jataka, Mahosadha-jataka, concerns his birth as a wise counselor and judge. The Pansiyapanas Jathaka Potha is a great canon of sacred Buddhist literature which was translated in to Sinhala from Jathaka Atuwawa in Kurunegala period. In the sixth Jataka, Bhuridatta-jataka, he is a Nāga king who comes on earth to practice Sīla, precepts. This collection of some 550 anecdotes and fables depicts earlier incarnations of Siddhartha Gautama. Traditional birth and death dates of Gautama are 563-483 BC. In the seventh Jataka, Chandakumāra-jataka, he is born as prince Chandakumāra, the son of a great king. ![]() ![]() In the eighth birth, Nemi-jataka, the Bodhisatta is a king who gives away all he had in alms and then, leaving the throne, goes to the forest where he lived as a hermit. In the ninth birth, Vidhura-jataka, the Bodhisatta is born as Vidhūrapandita. He is popular and wise and acts as a teacher and adviser to the king. In the tenth Jataka, Vessantara-jataka, being born as Vessantara, he typifies man reaching the zenith of his evolutional march towards moral and intellectual perfection and fits to cross the last gap that separates him from Buddha-hood. This last birth before he was reborn in Tusita is called Great Birth (Pannyawamsa, Ven. ![]() Sengpan, 2007, The Tham Vessantara-jataka, PhD Dissertation, Published online). #550 jathaka katha in sinhala pdf download series.#550 jathaka katha in sinhala pdf download full.
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