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    pongpang

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   pupay

   The young man filled the large jar with drinking water and brought the jar to the city gate for people who came back from cutting the grass in the forest.

 A few days later, the young man heard that a merchant from another city was coming to Benares with horses.
  The young man asked the owners of the grass to keep their grass until he had sold out his 500 bundles of grass that he was given by them.  This made other merchants unable to find grass from elsewhere except buying it from the young man.  He so set the sale price up to 1000 Kahapanas.  And this subsequently enabled those grass owners to sell their grass at that profitable price after him later.

  A few days later, a cargo ship had docked.  The young man hurried to hire a horse-drawn carriage.  He then dressed himself resplendently followed by a group of attendants to the harbour.
  So, later, other merchants of Benares came to buy the goods from the ship, they met with disappointment when finding out that all commodities had been sold in a lot.
  Those merchants decided to co-invest 1000 Kahapanas each with the young man and co-bought the goods another 1000 Kahapanas each.  This made the young man immediately making 200,000 Kahapanas profit to himself.

  The young man so told the millionaire the whole story.  After listening, he felt so impressed about the young man’s smartness, diligence and obligation in his nature, the millionaire decided to offer him a marriage with his daughter and bestowed him some of his wealth.
  Later, after the Culaka Millionaire had passed away, the young man succeeded the hereditary title as the millionaire of the city of Benares.
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The reference of this story: The Jataka Book written by Phra Bhavanaviriyakhun.   



 
Culaka Millionaire Jataka
 
:: The motive of the Lord Buddha’s recollection
of this story can be detailed as follows: ::

.… In the time of the Lord Buddha, a daughter of a millionaire in Rajagaha city had an illicit affair with a male slave.   Finally she decided to elope with him.  Later, she had two sons.  The elder named Mahapandhot.  The younger was Culapandhot.  Both once became the grown-up children learnt from their mother about their relatives and the grands.  They so coaxed the mother from time to time to bring them to see their grandparents.  The parents eventually agreed to take their family back to Rajagaha city.  However, the millionaire father refused to receive the couple but offered to adopt the two boys. The parents consented to the proposal.

.....Two children lived happily with their grandparents until grew up to become adult.  After Mahapandhot had a chance to listen to a sermon from the Lord Buddha, he decided to ordain as a monk and sooner became enlightened.  He then introduced his only younger brother to enter the monkhood.  However with his all-out effort, the younger monk could not learn even a stanza of verse.  Much to be disappointed, the elder-brother monk demanded the younger brother to discard the robe.  The instruction caused deep dismay to the later.

.....At that time, Mahapandhot Phikkhu took charge of distributing invitation to the monastic members. One day, the physician Jivaka Komarabhacca invited the Lord Buddha and the monks to be offered a meal in his home.  Mahapandhot Phikkhu allocated the invitation equally except Culapandhot.  This caused Culapandhot nursing much grievance at the extent of deciding to disrobe.  That early morning, the Lord Buddha checked on the world beings with his insight perception as usual.  Seeing all about the matter, kindly the Lord came and met Culapandhot on his way to resume the secular life.  The Awakened One handed him a piece of white cloth and told him to feel it together with reciting a certain phrase of words continuously.  The Lord then left for the Physician Jivaka’s home.  Culapandhot kept on doing what he was told until the piece of cloth turned tarnished.

.....at the Physician Jivaka’s residence, the Lord Buddha after having accepted the offer of the meal, said amid the congregation that still another monk was left behind in the temple.  The Physician so sent a servant to invite the monk.  Upon reaching there, the servant was astonished at the sight of the temple being replete with one thousand monks being busy with the maintaining activities.  It was because Culapandhot Phikkhu after becoming enlightened employed his supra-normal knowledge called mental power producing many bodies.  The servant ran back to inform the Physician.  The Lord Buddha told him to get back there the second time and called out loud the name of Culapandhot.  Which monk answered to the call first, he should catch the monk’s hand and led him here.  The servant did accordingly.  Culapandhot arrived and received the food offered to him.  After the meal, Culapandhot as the monastic representative cited the rejoicing words to the donor.

.....The following morning, monks were talking to each other about the virtue of the Buddha.  Learning what the monks had said, the Lord kindly recollected the previous existences and revealed the story of Culaka Millionaire as described above.

 
:: The inspirations drawn from the story of this Jataka ::
 

.....(1) The advices for one who is about to start a family:
          1. Not be too selective about work.
          2. Not be lazy to work for a living.
          3. Not be unmindful in carrying on work.

.....(2) The moral value and conduct that contribute to accomplishment:
          1. Being knowledgeable
          2. Being capableÕ
          3. Being well behavedÕ
          4. Being endowed with sufficient amount of the accumulated merit.

 
 

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