[501] Just so, a certain person here,[5] weak[6] in his undertaking (samādāna),
makes[7] himself light — as the wolf did on account of a goat.
The Baka Jātaka (birth-story), the tenth.
The Kumbhavagga, the fifth.
#[1] Ma. (Maramma, the Burmese edition): "komāraputta …". [2] Ma.: "jhānānuyutto viharāmi āvuso". [3] Ma.: "jhānabhūmiyā ti".
#[4] Ma.: "parapāṇarodhā". [5] Ma.: "idhekacce". [6] Ma.: "dubbalā". [7] Ma.: "aronti".
Its summary (uddāna):
The excellent pot (varakumbha); the one bearing the glorious name Supatta (supattasirivhayana);
the one deemed pure (sucisammata); the sweet-voiced one (bindussara); and the bull (usabha);
the lord of rivers (saritaṃpati); the fierce one (caṇḍī); with the aged monkey (jarākapi);
then with the she-monkey (makkaṭī) and with the wolf (vaka) — they are ten.
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Summary of the chapters (vagguddāna):
Saṅkappa and Paduma, with Udapāna as the third,
Abbhantara, Ghaṭabheda — [thus] adorned in the Tikanipāta.[1]
The Tikanipāta (the Book of Threes) is finished.
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#[1] In the old manuscript the vagguddāna was lost; this was written by me, Kittisobhana.
The Catukkanipāta Jātakas (Birth-stories of the Book of Fours)
1. The Kāliṅgavagga
1. The Cullakāliṅga Jātaka
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.