Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v2.c36.2176

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Sāma Jātaka (No. 540).—Once two hunters, chiefs of villages, made a pact that if their children happened to be of different sexes, they should marry each other. One had a boy called Dukūlaka, because he was born in a wrapping of fine cloth; the other had a daughter called Pārikā, because she was born beyond the river. When they grew up the parents married them, but, because they had both come from the Brahma-world, they agreed not to consummate the marriage. With their parents' consent they became ascetics, and lived in a hermitage provided for them by Sakka on the banks of the Migasammatā. Sakka waited on them, and perceiving great danger in store for them, persuaded them to have a son. The conception took place by Dukūlaka touching Pārikā's navel at the proper time. When the son was born they called him Sāma, and, because he was of golden colour, he came to be called Suvaṇṇasāma. He was the Bodhisatta.