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Theravada (major branch of Buddhism)

Source: Pali Kanon: Pali Proper Names

The story of how six persons became Pacceka Buddhas by feeling remorse for sins committed and by developing supernatural insight. The Jataka derives its name from the first of these, who was a villager of Kasi. He went with his friend into the fields, each carrying a flask of water. From time to time they drank, but the first drank out of the others flask, wishing to save the water in his own. In the evening remorse seized him, and as he stood reflecting on his wickedness he became a Pacceka Buddha.

The Pacceka Buddhas met at Nandamulapabbhara and together visited the king of Benares who was the Bodhisatta. On hearing their stories he renounced the world, and, in spite of the efforts of his consort to stop him, became an ascetic.

The story was related in reference to five hundred householders of Savatthi who became monks. They lived in the monastery but indulged in thoughts of sin. The Buddha sent Ananda to summon them, and admonished them saying that no matter how small a sin it was, it must be checked (J.iv.113ff). The queen consort of the story was Rahulamata.

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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).

See also (Relevant definitions)

Partial matches: Jataka, Paniya.

Full-text: Panna Jataka, Kumbhakara Jataka.

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