The Tham Vessantara-jAtaka - Khamkoo

ambhopurisakim tuNhimihA pApakena dujjivitena matantejIvitAseyyo itticitta manocitta
samkapo anekapariyAyena maraNAvannaMvA samveneyya maraNAyavA sammA dapeyya
ayampipArAjiko hoti asaMvAso : Should any Bhikkhu intentionally deprive a life of a
human being, or search for an assassin for him, or praise the advantages of death or
incite him to die thus: “My good man, what use is this wretched, miserable life to you?
Death would be better for you than life,” or with such thoughts in mind, such intentions
in mind, should in various ways praise the advantages of death or incite him to die, he
also is defeated and no longer in communion.
Once, when the Lord Buddha was residing at KuttasAlA in the city of VesAlI, at
that time, there was a famine. As a result, monks faced difficulty in collecting alms.
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Then the Bhikkhus got together and discussed thus: “Dear brothers, let's praise each
other in dignity in order to get food from the devotees easily. Otherwise we will suffer
from starvation”. Then they started praising each other by saying thus: “This monk has
already attained the first trance; this monk second trance, this monk third trance. This
monk is a stream winner, this monk is a once re-turner, this monk is a non-returner and
this monk is an Arahat and so on”.
Having heard their praising each other, people were so pleased and they offered
food to them. At the end of the rain retreat, those monks went to see the Lord Buddha to
pay respect according to the culture. Then the Lord Buddha asked them thus: “Oh!
Monks, have you got enough food to eat?” The monks replied to the Lord Buddha what
they had already done. After coming to know this incident, the Lord Buddha laid down
a rule thus: Yo pana bhikkhu anabhijAnaM uttarimanussadhammaM antupanAyikaM
alamariyaGANadassanaM samuddhAcareyya iti jAnAmi iti passAmiti tato aparena
samayena samanuggAhiyamano vA asamanuggAhiyamAno vA Apanno visuddhApekkho
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