Mandhatu Jataka, Mandhātu-jātaka: 1 definition
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Theravada (major branch of Buddhism)
Source: Pali Kanon: Pali Proper NamesThe story of King Mandhata. It was told to a backsliding monk who, while travelling in Savatthi for alms, saw an attractively dressed woman and fell in love with her. This was reported to the Buddha, who told him this story to show that lust could never be satisfied. At the end of the discourse the monk, with many others, became a sotapanna.
DhA.iii.240 gives a different occasion for the story; but that, too, refers to a discontented monk. J.ii.310ff.
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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The Jataka tales [English], Volume 1-6 (by Robert Chalmers)
Jataka 258: Mandhātu-jātaka < [Book III - Tika-Nipāta]
Nagarjunikonda < [April 1955]