Kurungamiga Jataka, Kuruṅgamiga-jātaka: 1 definition
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Source: Pali Kanon: Pali Proper Names1. Kurungamiga Jataka (No.21) - Once the Bodhisatta was an antelope who used to eat the fruit of a sepanni tree. One day a huntsman discovered him and lay in wait to kill him, but the Bodhisatta suspected his presence and so escaped death.
The story was told in reference to Devadattas plots to kill the Buddha, the huntsman being identified with Devadatta. J.i.173f.
2. Kurungamiga Jataka (No.206) - In a forest lived three friends: an antelope, a woodpecker and a tortoise. One night the antelope was caught in a huntsmans noose, and the tortoise set about biting through the thongs of the noose while the woodpecker, uttering cries of ill omen, kept the huntsman in his hut. The antelope escaped, but the tortoise, exhausted by his labours, was caught by the huntsman. The antelope thereupon enticed the hunter into the forest and, eluding him, released the tortoise. The antelope was the Bodhisatta, Sariputta the woodpecker, Moggallana the tortoise and Devadatta the hunter.
The story was told in reference to Devadattas wickedness (J.ii.152ff; DhA.iii.152f).
This Jataka is figured on the Bharhut Stupa. Cunningham: p.67 and PL xxvii.9.
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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