Tandulanali Jataka, Taṇḍulanāḷi-jātaka, Tandulanalii-jataka, Tandulanalijataka, Taṇḍulanāḷijātaka: 3 definitions
Introduction:
Tandulanali Jataka means something in Buddhism, Pali. If you want to know the exact meaning, history, etymology or English translation of this term then check out the descriptions on this page. Add your comment or reference to a book if you want to contribute to this summary article.
In Buddhism
Theravada (major branch of Buddhism)
Once the Bodhisatta was appraiser to the king of Benares, with whom he always dealt fairly. The king was greedy, and thinking that his appraiser paid too much for things bought for the palace, he appointed in his place a rustic, whom he happened to see passing. This man fixed prices according to his own fancy. One day a dealer brought five hundred horses from Uttarapatha, and the appraiser valued the whole lot at a single measure of rice. The horse dealer sought the Bodhisattas advice, who suggested that the appraiser should be asked to value a measure of rice. The horse dealer went to the king, and, in the presence of the court, asked the appraiser the value of one measure of rice. The man replied that it was worth all Benares and its suburbs. The ministers laughed, thus putting the king to shame. He dismissed the fool and reinstated the Bodhisatta.
The story was told in reference to Laludayi, who had a dispute with Dabba Mallaputta regarding the distribution of food tickets. The monks thereupon asked Laludayi to undertake the task. This he did so badly that great confusion ensued, and the matter was reported to the Buddha, who related the above story to show that in the past, too, his stupidity had deprived others of their profit.
Laludayi is identified with the false appraiser. J.i.123-26.
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).
Languages of India and abroad
Pali-English dictionary
taṇḍulanāḷijātaka (တဏ္ဍုလနာဠိဇာတက) [(na) (န)]—
[taṇḍulanāḷi+jātaka]
[တဏ္ဍုလနာဠိ+ဇာတက]
[Pali to Burmese]
taṇḍulanāḷijātaka—
(Burmese text): တဏ္ဍုလနာဠိဇာတ်၊ လာလုဒါယီထေရ် အလောင်းမလိမ္မာသော ရာဖြတ်သူကြီးဖြစ်စဉ်က မိမိနားမလည်သဖြင့် မြင်း ၅ဝဝကို ဆန်-၁-ကွမ်းစား-၁-စလယ်-အဖိုးဖြတ်၍ မြင်းကုန်သည်တို့အား လာဘ်လာဘယုတ်လျော့စေခဲ့ပုံ အကြောင်းအရာကို ဟောပြရာဖြစ်သော ဇာတ်။
(Auto-Translation): The play "Tandhulnahlizat," tells the story of a great deceiver who, due to their lack of understanding, divides 500 horses among the people as a way to diminish their wealth and capability, ultimately leading to the story being narrated.
Pali is the language of the Tipiṭaka, which is the sacred canon of Theravāda Buddhism and contains much of the Buddha’s speech. Closeley related to Sanskrit, both languages are used interchangeably between religions.
See also (Relevant definitions)
Partial matches: Tandulanali, Jataka.
Full-text: Dabba Mallaputta, Laludayi.
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