Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v1.c6.3364

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**Asātamanta Jātaka** (No. 61).—The Bodhisatta was once a famous teacher in **Takkasilā**. A young brahmin of Benares came to study under him and, after completing his course, went back home. His mother, however, was anxious that he should renounce the world and tend **Aggibhagavā** in the forest. She accordingly sent him back to the Teacher that he might learn the “Asātamanta” (Dolour Text). The Teacher had a mother aged 120 years, on whom he himself waited. When the youth came back to learn the Asātamanta, he was asked to look after the old woman. She, falling in love with him, hatched a plot to kill her son.