The Tham Vessantara-jAtaka - Khamkoo

things, sexual misconduct, telling a lie, harsh speech, gossip and frivolous talk. 27 They
give up doing evil things and holding no wrong view. They don’t harbour aversion and
malice towards each other.
Thence, they start performing meritorious deeds continuously. With the results
of those meritorious deeds, the age of their children and grand children will be
strengthened up to sixteen years. They continue doing meritorious deeds and their age
period will become thirty years. Their children and grand children’s age period will
become forty years. They will continue doing meritorious deeds and the age of them
will become one hundred year. The children of one hundred year people continue doing
meritorious deeds and their age period will become two hundred years and then will go
up to one thousand years. They perform good deeds as a result of them their age period
will be two thousand years and then go up to four thousand years, five thousand years,
six thousand years, seven thousand, eight thousand years, up to one hundred thousand
years till an aeon. By that time, there will be no aging and death.
Having longevity people will be unintelligent and starting doing bad things.
Their age period will be reduced up to one hundred thousand years. This is the normal
age period of the people. When the age of the people reduces up to eighty thousand
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years by then, the Ariyametteyya will be born in the human world. Then there will be
enough seasonal rain in the human world and it will be prosperous indeed. By then in
the human world, there will be no bad people, such as thieves, insurgents and so on. The
country is prosperous and fruitful with crops. There will be no quarrel among families,
husbands and wives. People neither have to cultivate nor do any business. Then, corn
will grow by themselves without any growers”.
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Here only four of the precepts have been mentioned, the fifth one which is abstaining from taking any
intoxicant drink is being omitted but the fourth one is divided into four like gossiping, harsh speech and
frivolous talk etc.
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