The Jataka, Vol. V, tr. by H.T. Francis, [1905], at sacred-texts.com
INDEX OF SUBJECT MATTERS.
Act of Truth 15, 16, 47, 52, 246, 275
Alms, exchange of, forbidden 208
Ambrosia 211, 212, 213, 214, 215, 216
Ānanda's renunciation of life 175, 177, 178, 186
Annihilation, doctrine of 117, 123
Areca nuts 171
Arms, blaze of, an omen 66
Ascetic youth led astray by a girl habited as a boy 102
Attainments, eight 70, 135, 166
Bamboo dies after bearing fruit 41, 195
Bark garment 49, 70, 102, 104, 153
Beauty and the Beast, parallel to 141
Benares cloth 199
Birds adopted as children by a king 60
Birth without the intervention of parents 218
Brahmins, entertainment of 127, 206, 269
Brahmins not allowed strong drink 253
Brahmins spoken of as low-caste 132
Buddha emits dark rays from his hair 220
Cambodian horses 241
Car, festal 128
Cats intoxicated 7
Child suckled by a goat 230
Children, three kinds of 46
Clapping with one hand 243
Conception, miraculous 144
Crows nourished by oblations 58
Cry of capture, birds' 178, 190
Cuckoo, royal, escorted through the air by a train of cuckoos 221
Cycle, flame at the beginning of a 177,
Dead flowers removed from temples by a low-caste man 242
Death written on the brow 119, 159, 269
Devadatta, attempt of, to kill the Buddha 37, 41, 175
Devadatta swallowed up by the earth 42, 48, 134
Dhuta precepts 202
Doe gives birth to a man child 79, 100
Dog warns his benefactor of danger 119
Door, back or side-door 69, 135
Drink, strong, how it was discovered 6
Drink, strong, evil effects of 7, 8, 9, 10
Eating alone wrong 207, 208, 212
Ecstasy, mystic see Mystic Meditation
Eight blessings of the ascetic 130, 131
Eight grounds for despising a husband 232
Elephant festival 147
Elephant trained to stand firm under attack 162
Emblems of royalty, five 136
Exposure of an infant 230
Faculties, supernatural 70, 100, 135, 165, 166, 224
Fast-day, reward for keeping 4
Fauna of India 222
Finger laid on the forehead as mark of respect to the Bodhisatta 260
Fire, sacred 2
Fish choose a king 250
Fish devours its own tail 251
Five emblems of royalty 136
Five feminine charms 48
Five five-clawed things that may be eaten 267
Five kinds of immorality 185
Five kinds of immorality 185
Five kinds women to be avoided 241
Five kinds of locks of hair 125, 129, 130
Five kinds of moral laws 18, 174, 177, 193, 201, 191 209, 252, 274
Five Rests 274
Five signs of falling from the Faith 141
Five sweet kinds of flesh 257, 266
Fortune tellers 154
Fortune tellers from personal marks 108, 154, 247, 264
Forty ways in which a woman makes up to a man 232
Four arms in a host 162, 168, 170, 259, 265
Four Great Kings 166, 258, 274
Four island continents 220
Four modes of conciliation 174, 185, 191
Four postures 107
Four requisites 19
Four things likely to prove injurious 232
Four things not to be satisfied 243
Four ways of deportment 135
Frenzy produced by a woman's beauty 108
Gandhabba 276
Garuḍa king 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 48
Garuḍa wind raised by wings of 43, 46
Geese enclosed in a cave by a spider's web 255
Geese preaching the law 183, 184, 186,187, 192, 198
Gold plate inscribed 32, 37, 64
Grey hair, a king frightened by the appearance of a 92
Guardian angel 230
Hells, eight major 137
Hells one hundred and twenty minor 137
Heresies and heretics 65, 117, 122, 123, 124, 177
Heretics, four great 126
Heron feather fixed on arrows 259
Holy days, observance of 84, 85, 90, 91, 247
Hunting one beast with another condemned 139, 198
Impermanence of things 78, 96, 128
Jar of water, a good omen 73
Kshatriya doctrine 117, 123, 268
Kshatriya wiles 16 108, 247, 264
Kusa makes the earth to tremble by his look 162
Layman, characteristics of a 128
Leprosy 38, 39, 41, 49, 52, 53
Lion's mouth its fifth paw 225
Lotus nectar 253
Magic powers 5, 29, 65, 166, 167, 169, 221
Marks, auspicious see Lucky marks
Milk money 66
Moggallāna, death of 64, 65, 66
Monkey-skin, parable of the 121
Moon, eclipse of, due to Rāhu 18
Moon figure of a hare depicted in the 18
Moons, observance of 90, 109, 247
Mystic circle 166
Mystic Meditation 5, 53, 70, 79, 83, 84, 100, 103, 106, 126, 134, 135
Nerves of taste, seven thousand 152, 248
Nine ways in which a woman incurs blame 232
Nirvāna 55, 134, 245, 263, 278
Oath, form of 262
Ogress (female yakkha) carries off children 11
One shoulder bared as a mark of respect 217
Parents called "Brahma" 174
Parents care of devolves on the eldest son 165, 171, 172, 176
Parents inviolate 278
Paths, the 5, 6, 19, 31, 84, 106, 115, 164, 174, 177
Perfect States, the four 91, 106, 126
Perfection of Wisdom 31, 116, 221
Phantom palace 2
Pit dug to trap an elephant 27
Prayer offered in a previous existence fulfilled 11, 22, 25, 109, 149
Precious stones, king enthroned on a pile of 279
Pregnancy, ceremonies observed on 144
Previous existence, sin committed in a, bears fruit 65
Princess to be cut into seven pieces for seven suitors 158
Problem proposed or solved 31, 37, 61, 62, 63, 73, 75, 76, 79, 136
Problem of the Five Sages 45
Prognostication from personal appearance 108, 247, 264
Proverbs 34, 35, 52, 137, 154, 204, 232, 243
Quarrel between two clans about water rights 209, 210
Rain, absence of, for three years 100
Rainy season lasting five months 255
Rays emitted from Buddha's hair 6
Rays of light from a woman's body 49, 147, 147
Remembrance of former births 20, 22, 25, 225, 257
Renunciation 86, 99, 127, 129, 134
Requisites for ascetic life 69, 70, 90, 98, 119
Riddles 75
Right-wise movement 83
Sakka's four daughters, contest between 210
Sakka's throne shaken by a mortal's virtue 50, 80, 100
Sakka's throne shows signs of heat 50,
Sanctuary lake for birds 187, 188
Scape-goats for sin 71
Scented wreaths, offering of 5, 65, 187, 201, 210, 260, 263
Seven gold-coloured creatures 187
Seven precious things 264
Shower, miraculous 65, 72, 73, 79
Sieve, life like water running through a 96
Sindh horses 132
Sinning, three modes of 9
Six-coloured rays emitted by Buddha 20, 22, 23, 220, 221
Six injurious things 232
Six senses, desires of the 266
Six-tusked elephant 23, 24, 27
Six worlds of sense 269
Slaves made freedmen 165
Snakes, how they defend themselves against garuḍas 43
Snare for birds described 189
Spell 257
Spirit enjoys alternate bliss and woe 2
Sprinkling ceremonial 52, 128, 132, 147, 239, 241, 271, 279
Squatting penance 124
Stars, lucky conjunction of 66
Sterility of women, observances to remove 142
Supernatural powers 65, 169, 208, 221, 225, 245
Tax gatherers, oppression of 54, 57
Ten royal virtues 200, 201, 279
Thirty-Three, heaven of the 11, 83, 142, 143, 208, 210, 216, 218
Three kinds of misconduct 9
Three kinds of right conduct 8
Tooth-stick 49, 71, 72, 81, 165
Top knot severed by a king as a sign of abdicating the throne 97
Torture, "straw and meal" 65
Traditions kept up in a family 147, 204, 206
Transformation from one bodily shape to another 208
Triple folds in the neck a sign of luck 81
Truths, the 5, 19, 71, 84, 106, 115, 164, 174
Twelve evil things destroyed by eating ambrosia 212
Twenty-five ways by which a wicked woman is known 233
Umbrella, white, token of royalty 7, 11, 12, 18, 52, 64, 92, 121, 151, 162, 184, 187, 196, 201, 205, 270
Universal monarch 245
Weapons, five kinds of 150
West, the, ill-omened quarter 214
White Nun 228
Wind, to catch with a net 154, 241, 243
Woman, frailty of 225, 229, 231, 234, 235, 236, 240, 242
Woman, story of a, soft to the touch 237, 238, 239
World, Formless 274
World of Form 245
Yak-tail fan, emblem of royalty 170
Yakkha, carnivorous 51, 248, 257
Yakkha eyes of, red and unwinking 18
Yakkha, figure of, depicted in the moon 18
Yellow robe of priest 27, 28, 97, 98
Yellow robe does not make a saint 28