Citta Sambhuta Jataka, Citta-sambhūta-jātaka: 1 definition

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In Buddhism
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Theravada (major branch of Buddhism)

Source: Pali Kanon: Pali Proper Names

The Bodhisatta was once born as a Candala in Ujjeni in the kingdom of Avanti. He was called Citta and his brother Sambhuta. One day, when they were out sweeping, two rich women on their way to the park noticed them and turned back. Their followers, disappointed at their loss of a picnic, beat the two Candalas.

Then the brothers went to Takkasila to study. Citta became very proficient, and was sent one day, in place of his teacher, to the house of a villager who had invited the teacher and his pupils. But while there, in a moment of forgetfulness, the brothers used the Candala dialect, and having thus disclosed their caste, were driven out of Takkasila.

In their next birth they became does and in a subsequent birth ospreys. They were always together and always met their death together. Later Citta was born as the son of the chaplain of Kosambi, and Sambhuta as son of the king of Uttarapancala. Citta, becoming an ascetic at the age of sixteen, remembered his past births. He waited till Sambhuta had reigned for fifty years, and knowing that he also had some recollection of his previous existences, taught a stanza to a lad and sent him to recite it before the king. Sambhuta heard the stanza, remembered his brother, and, after inquiry, visited Citta, who had then gone to the royal park. There Citta gave him counsel, and not long after Sambhuta renounced the world. After death they were both born in the Brahma world.

Ananda is identified with Sambhuta. The story was told in reference to two monks, colleagues of Maha Kassapa, who were greatly devoted to each other. J.iv.390-401.

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Theravāda is a major branch of Buddhism having the the Pali canon (tipitaka) as their canonical literature, which includes the vinaya-pitaka (monastic rules), the sutta-pitaka (Buddhist sermons) and the abhidhamma-pitaka (philosophy and psychology).

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