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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: BOOK V. THE SIMPLETON, BALA VAGGA V. 1. THE KING AND THE POOR MAN WITH A BEAUTIFUL WIFE1 Long is the night to him that watcheth. I] This religious instruction was given by the Teacher while he was in residence at Jetavana with reference to Pasenadi Kosala and a certain other man. 1 This story, of which a late Burmese version is translated by Rogers in linddha- ghosha's Parables, chap- xv, pp. 125-135, illustrates on a large scale the literary methods and devices employed by the Hindu fiction writer in general, and by the redactors of the Dhammapada Commentary, the Jdtaka Book, and the Peta-Vatthu Commentary in particular, in their manipulation of recurring psychic motifs. The structure of the story is unusually interesting. It consists of a principal story, or frame-story, and three embedded stories. Each of these four stories was originally quite independent, and the motif (or motifs) upon which each turns occurs repeatedly in Hindu and Buddhist fiction. V. 1, the frame-story, is the story of the king and the poor man with a beautiful wife and turns on the David and Uriah motif (2 Samuel xi; cf. the story of King Cyrus and Queen Panthea, Xenophon's Cyrop. vi). The same story occurs in Peta-Vatthu Commentary, iv. 1: 2168-217; iv. 15: 27923-280o. As the king lies sleepless on his bed, resolved to kill the poor man in order to gain possession of his wife, he hears Four Ominous Sounds. The Brahmans tell him that the sounds portend his death, and prevail upon him to order the sacrifice of every kind of living creature. At this point the description of the sacrifice at Samyutta, . 75-76, is introduced. The queen calms the king's fears and conducts him to the Buddha, who interprets the sounds. By way of interpretation of the sounds is introduced 1 a, the story of the...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217732291 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217732291 |
| Weight | 0.92 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.63 In |
| List Price | $20.68 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 280 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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