Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v2.c29.843

v2.c29.843

⁵ Bu. ii. 116 ff. Sometimes thirty pāramī are spoken of, each of the ten being divided into three, varying in kind and degree. Thus, in the case of dāna, the dānapāramī consists in giving one's limbs, dāna-upapāramī in giving away one's external possessions and dāna-paramatthapāramī in giving one's life, this last being the most excellent. In the case of Gotama Buddha, examples of births in which the ten pāramī were practised to the highest degree are as follows: the Ekarāja, Khantivādī, Cūla-Saṅkhapāla, Mahājanaka, Mahāsutasoma, Mūgapakkha, Lomahamsa, Sattubhattaka, Sasa, and Sutasoma Jātakas (BuA. 50; J. i. 44 f.).