Studies in the Divyāvadāna: I. Sūkarikāvadāna

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Studies in the Divyāvadāna: I. Sūkarikāvadāna
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Sutras (Sanskrit)


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This is James R. Ware's translation of the Sūkarikāvadāna. The Sanskrit text which he translates is to be found in Cowell and Neil's edition of the Divydvadana, pp. 193-196.
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Ware, James R., trans. "Studies in the Divyāvadāna: I. Sūkarikāvadāna." Journal of the American Oriental Society 48 (1928): 159–65.
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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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A critical Sanskrit edition of the Sūkarikāvadāna, edited by Edward Byles Cowell and Robert Alexander Neil in The Divyāvadāna: A Collection of Early Buddhist Legends.