Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c3.s2.t1.60
Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jātaka Stories c3.s2.t1.60
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c3.s2.t1.60
The long and short of the story itself, even if we confine ourselves to the gāthās alone, is this: King Esukārī had no son. So he wanted to make one of the Purohita’s sons king, but all of them turned out ascetics. So did also the Purohita and his wife; then the king also embraced religious life, and last the queen: