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# Jataka 532.85.2

Jātaka 532.85.2

- **Language:** Pāli

### [532.85.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.jataka.532.85.2)

sadā hasitakīḷitaṃ;

> Joy, careless ease, laughter and sport, are the sure heritage  
> Of him that studiously shall tend a mother in old age.  
> — Robert Chalmers & W. H. D. Rouse 1895, The Jātaka, or Stories of the Buddha's Former Births (6 vols.)

> Joy, careless ease, laughter and sport, are the sure heritage  
> Of him that studiously shall tend a father in old age.  
> — Robert Chalmers & W. H. D. Rouse 1895, The Jātaka, or Stories of the Buddha's Former Births (6 vols.)

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## Translations (2)

- [The Jātaka, or Stories of the Buddha's Former Births (6 vols.)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.jataka!jatakatthavannana~en-cowell.532.p115) — Robert Chalmers & W. H. D. Rouse 1895, English
- [Jātakam: das Buch der Erzählungen aus früheren Existenzen Buddhas](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.jataka!jatakatthavannana~de-dutoit.532.p132) — Julius Dutoit 1908, German

## Commentaries (1)

- [Jātakatthavaṇṇanā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.jataka!jatakatthavannana.20.2.176) — Buddhaghosa, Pāli

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