[290] "It seems that mine is a happy life — I who have come from the realm to the wilderness;
all alone (in the forest),² at the root of a tree, I brood like a poor wretch,
recollecting the Dhamma of the good (sataṃ dhammaṃ)."
¹ [Variant] Burmese edition: "bhavati cāpi." ² [Variant] The Burmese edition does not have this reading ("araññasmiṃ").
The Dhammaddhaja Jātaka, the tenth.
The Bīraṇatthambhaka Vagga, the seventh.
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Summary thereof (uddāna):
Now the excellent clump of bīraṇa grass [Somadatta], and the dancer [Ucchiṭṭhabhatta],
the Kuru king, supreme and excellent [Bharu], the Full River [Puṇṇanadī],
the great talker [Kacchapa], the fire [Maccha], in the woodland [Seggu], the mice [Kūṭavāṇija],
together with her of the pendulous breasts [Garahita] and the wretch [Dhammaddhaja] — [these are] the ten.
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8. The Kāsāva Vagga
1. The Kāsāva Jātaka
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.