Maha Prajnaparamita Sastra
by Gelongma Karma Migme Chödrön | 2001 | 941,039 words
This page describes “shiva-jataka” as written by Nagarjuna in his Maha-prajnaparamita-sastra (lit. “the treatise on the great virtue of wisdom”) in the 2nd century. This book, written in five volumes, represents an encyclopedia on Buddhism as well as a commentary on the Pancavimsatisahasrika Prajnaparamita.
The Śivā-Jātaka
Thus Che-p’o (Śivā), for an offering to Kia-tchan-yen (Kātyāyana), obtained in the present existence a fruit of retribution: she is the main wife of king (Tchan-t’o-tccheou-t’o (Candrapradyota).
Notes on the Śivā-jātaka:
For having made a gift to the great disciple Mahākātyāyana, then chaplain to Caṇḍapradyota, king of Avanti, Śiva, otherwise unknown, became the king’s wife.