Sūkarikāvadāna (Cowell and Neil)

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Sūkarikāvadāna
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A critical Sanskrit edition (Roman) of the Sūkarikāvadāna, edited by Edward Byles Cowell and Robert Alexander Neil in the book The Divyāvadāna: A Collection of Early Buddhist Legends, published by Cambridge University Press, 1886.
Citation
Cowell, Edward Byles, and Robert Alexander Neil, eds. "Sūkarikāvadāna." In The Divyāvadāna: A Collection of Early Buddhist Legends, 193–96. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1886. https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.282106/page/n203/mode/2up.
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Classical WorksAbout this item
In The Exemplary Tale About a Sow, the Buddha recounts the earlier events surrounding a god in Trāyastriṃśa heaven who foresaw that he would be reborn as a pig in Rājagṛha. At the encouragement of Śakra, this god, in the final moments of agony before his death, took refuge in the Three Jewels and thereby attained rebirth in the even higher Tuṣita heaven. The story thus illustrates the liberative power of taking refuge in the Three Jewels, as befittingly expressed in the concluding verses of this short avadāna. (Source: 84000)
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Articles1928About this item
This article contains James Ware's translation of the Sūkarikāvadānasūtra from the Sanskrit edition of the Divyāvadāna by Cowell and Neil, 1886.