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007.1 – The wood cutter (part 1)

In those days, while a king of Varanasi was traveling in the royal forest, he saw a woman. She was singing while cutting wood. The king fell in love with her and made love with her. The wood cutter feel that her womb is full and heavy so she told the king “My majesty, I’ve [...]

006.4 – Deva Dharma (part 4)

[Continued from the previous part] Mahissasa then longly explained many aspects of shame of sins. After the explanation had ended, the water demon offered “Look, noble man. I’m admired you. I I’ll release one of your brother. Please choose which one you want.” “So please give me my youngest brother.” Mahissasa said. “Look, noble man. [...]

006.3 – Deva Dharma (part 3)

[Continued from the previous part] The water demon saw that Mahissasa didn’t went into the pond, so it impersonated a worker. It said to Mahissasa, “Tired people, why don’t you go down into this pond, take a bath, drink water, and eat some lotus rootstock ?” Mahissasa knew that it actually was a water demon. [...]

006.2 – Deva Dharma (part 2)

[Continued from the previous part] In those days, there was a king of Varanasi named Phrommadatta. His queen had a son named Mahissasa. One of his concubine also gave a birth to a son named Chanta. When the queen passed away, he appointed his most favourite concubine as a new queen. The new queen also [...]

006.1 – Deva Dharma (part 1)

In the age of the Gautama Buddha, there was a middle-class man whose wife had just passed away. He decided to be ordained. After became a monk, he called his followers to cook foods for him. He also had a lot of yellow robes and clothes. Other monks had passed the new monk’s place and [...]