[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Literature, language and dating](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature) › [A History of Indian Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927) › v2.c19.s3.t2.289 # A History of Indian Literature v2.c19.s3.t2.289 A History of Indian Literature v2.c19.s3.t2.289 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c19.s3.t2.289](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s3.t2.289) Jātaka No. 530 is a similar Itihāsa dialogue, which, however, reads more like a passage from an old Purāṇa. Here it is announced to King Brahmadatta that the saint Saṃkicca, his former domestic priest, has come. The king goes to meet him, and asks him what the fate of sinners is in the Beyond. Saṃkicca replies with a sermon, which contains a detailed description of hell. The speeches are the essential part also in the legend of the two friends who were reborn consecutively as Cāṇḍālas, antelopes, sea-eagles, and finally as Citta, the son of a priest, and Sambhūta, the prince (No. 498). In these speeches Citta, recalling his death and former births, praises the ascetic life, and exhorts the king, his old friend, that, if he cannot renounce the world entirely, at least to rule justly, always bearing in mind that he, who is now king, was once poor and humble.² - [Previous: v2.c19.s3.t2.288](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s3.t2.288) - [Next: v2.c19.s3.t2.290](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s3.t2.290) - [Up: v2.c19.s3.t2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s3.t2) ## Cites (2) - [Jātaka](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.jataka.498) — Pāli - [Purāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s3.t2.289](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s3.t2.289) · Pramāṇa