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The Tham Vessantara-jAtaka - Khamkoo

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Section Twenty Four<br />

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Nagon : <strong>The</strong> section on entering the city<br />

Namotassatthu : May homage be to the Buddha.<br />

TaM sutvA mahAsatto pitarA saddhiM sallApanto imam gAthA mAha : MahA satto :<br />

When the Great Being, who had been an ascetic practicing meditation in the forest,<br />

heard their invitation of his father and all the subjects, sallApanto : he wanted to make<br />

sure to his father so that he addressed thus: Dhammena rajjaM kArentaM raThA<br />

pabbAjayittha maM tvaGca jAnapadA ceva negamA ca samAgatA : “Father, you and the<br />

country people and the city men were furious and gathered together to exile me from the<br />

kingdom though I had done nothing wrong, simply giving away the white rain bringing<br />

elephant which was my own, while I was ruling the kingdom righteously. Why do you<br />

come today to invite me to return home to be a king? I am not worthy for that. So,<br />

father, I request you to go back to reign in the kingdom after seeing your son.”<br />

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Tato rAjA attano dosaM khamApento Aha : <strong>The</strong>n King SaGjaya heard this and<br />

realized that it was his own fault; he asked pardon of his son saying this stanza:<br />

DukkataM ca hi no putta bhUnahaccaM kataM mayA yo ham sivInaM vacanA pabbAjesiM<br />

adUsakaM : “My beloved son, do not linger about the past, if I did not listen to the<br />

voice of the people as they arose together asking me banishing you because you gave<br />

away the white elephant which brings prosperity for the kingdom, you might have been<br />

killed. As I listened to the voice of the people, without considering much, it was a great<br />

sin indeed to banish the innocent man at the command of the Sivis. Please do pardon me<br />

for doing that, my precious son.”<br />

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