Takkariya Jataka, Takkāriya-jātaka: 1 definition
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Theravada (major branch of Buddhism)
Source: Pali Kanon: Pali Proper NamesBrahmadatta had, as chaplain, a tawny brown brahmin who was toothless, and whose wife had a paramour possessed of the same attributes. Wishing for the death of the latter, the chaplain asked the king to build anew the southern gate of his city, and declared that on the day the gate was set up a tawny brown brahmin should be killed and sacrificed to the guardian spirits. The king agreed, but the chaplain, unable to restrain his wifes conduct, told her about it. The news spread abroad, and all tawny brown brahmins fled from the city, leaving, on the auspicious day, only the chaplain. The people demanded that he should be slain to avert ill luck, and that his pupil, Takkariya (the Bodhisatta), should be appointed in his place. The chaplain confessed his plan to Takkariya, who thereupon related several stories showing how silence is golden. In the end Takkariya allowed the chaplain to flee from the city, and had the corpse of a goat buried under the city gates in the dead of night (J.iv.242ff).
The story was related in reference to Kokalika, who came to grief by abusing the Chief Disciples. See Kokalika (2).
The tawny brown brahmin is identified with Kokalika.
The Jataka seems also to have been called the Takka Jataka (E.g., J.v.446) and the Mahatakkari Jataka. J.ii.175.
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: Takkariya, Jataka.
Full-text: Mahatakkari Jataka, Takkariya, Vyaggha Jataka, Kokalika, Takka Jataka.
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The Jataka tales [English], Volume 1-6 (by Robert Chalmers)
Jataka 117: Tittira-jātaka < [Book I - Ekanipāta]
Jataka 272: Vyaggha-jātaka < [Book III - Tika-Nipāta]
Jataka 215: Kacchapa-jātaka < [Book II - Dukanipāta]
The Life of Sariputta (by Nyanaponika Thera)
The Unresentful < [Part II - Maturity Of Insight]