Surapana Jataka, Surāpāna-jātaka: 1 definition
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Theravada (major branch of Buddhism)
Source: Pali Kanon: Pali Proper NamesThe Bodhisatta was once born in the Udiccabramanakula, and became a hermit with five hundred pupils. One day his pupils went, with his leave, to Benares, to the haunts of men, for salt and vinegar. The king welcomed them, and invited them to stay in the royal park for four months. During this time a drinking festival was held in the city, and the people, thinking to give the hermits a rare gift, entertained them to the best they had. The hermits became drunk and behaved with undue hilarity. When they emerged from their stupor and realized what they had done, they left the city and hastened back to their teacher.
The story was related in reference to the occasion on which Sagata Thera (q.v.) got drunk. J.i.360f.
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, Surapana.
Full-text: Sagata.
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The Jataka tales [English], Volume 1-6 (by Robert Chalmers)
Jataka 81: Surāpāna-jātaka < [Book I - Ekanipāta]
Vinaya Pitaka (1): Bhikkhu-vibhanga (the analysis of Monks’ rules) (by I. B. Horner)