Matuposaka Jataka, Mātuposaka-jātaka: 1 definition
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Theravada (major branch of Buddhism)
Source: Pali Kanon: Pali Proper NamesThe Bodhisatta was once born as an elephant in the Himalaya and looked after his blind mother, who lived near Mount Candorana. One day he met a forester who had lost his way, and, feeling sorry for him, the elephant set him on the right path, carrying him on his back. But the forester was wicked, and, on his return to Benares, told the king about the elephant. The king asked him to fetch the elephant, who, seeing the forester approaching, meekly followed him lest his virtue be impaired. The elephant was received in the city with great pomp and placed in the royal stables as the state elephant, but he would touch no morsel of food. The king enquired into this and learnt of the elephants blind mother. Thereupon the elephant was set free, and returned to the Himalaya amid the applause of the people. The king built a town near the elephants dwelling, where he showed him great honour, and later, when, at his mothers death, the elephant went away to the Karandaka monastery to wait on the ascetics there, the king did the same for them.
The story was related in reference to a monk who tended his mother. For details see the Sama Jataka. Ananda is identified with the king, whose name is given as Vedeha, and Mahamaya with the mother elephant (J.iv.90 5).
The Dhammapada Commentary (DhA.iv.13) calls this the Matuposaka Nagaraja Jataka and gives the name of the elephant as Dhanapala. It was related to the four sons of a brahmin who waited on their aged father. The audience shed floods of tears, so greatly were they moved, and the brahmin and his sons became sotapannas.
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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Partial matches: Matuposaka, Jataka.
Full-text: Vedeha.
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