Kukkutandakhadika Vatthu, Kukkuṭandakhādikā-vatthu: 1 definition
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In Buddhism
Theravada (major branch of Buddhism)
Source: Pali Kanon: Pali Proper NamesA girl eats the eggs of a hen, the hen conceives a grudge against her and is reborn as a cat, who eats the eggs of the hen, who is the girl reborn. For five hundred births they thus return hatred for hatred. Finally the girl is reborn in Savatthi as a woman, and the hen as an ogress. The ogress eats two of the womans children, and is about to eat the third when the woman seeks refuge in the monastery. The Buddha admonished them to return good for evil and they become friends. DhA.iii.449f; cp. the story of Kali (6).
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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