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The Jataka tales [English], Volume 1-6
by Robert Chalmers | 1895 | 877,505 words | ISBN-13: 9788120807259
This is the Cula-Janaka-jataka (English translation) including a glossary and notes. The jatakas (buddhist birth history) are a category of literature within buddhism and narrate the previous births of the historical Buddha (Siddhartha Gautama). They include various obstacles which a Buddha-character encounters and must overcome. Alternative title: Cūḷa-Janaka-jātaka.
Jataka 52: Cūḷa-Janaka-jātaka
"Toil on, my brother."--This story was told by the Master while at Jetavana, about another backsliding Brother. All the incidents that are to be related here, will be given in the Mahā-janaka-Jātaka[1].
The king, seated beneath the white canopy of sovereignty, recited this stanza:—
"Toil on, my brother; still in hope stand fast;
Faint not, nor tire, though harassed sore.
Myself I see, who, all my woes o’erpast,
Have fought my stubborn way ashore.
Here too the backsliding Brother won Arahatship. The All-wise Buddha was King Janaka.
Footnotes and references:
[1]:
One of the last Jātakas, not yet edited.