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5. Well-Meant Advice

About Rohinī: a past life story

Khuddaka Nikāya
5. Atthakāmavagga
Rohiṇijātaka
Minor Collection
5. Well-Meant Advice
About Rohinī: a past life story
Khuddaka Nikāya
5. Atthakāmavagga
Rohiṇijātaka
About Rohinī: a past life story

“Sense-lacking friends.”—This story was told by the Master while at Jetavana, about a maid servant of the Lord High Treasurer, Anatha-pindika. For he is said to have had a maid-servant named Rohini, whose aged mother came to where the girl was pounding rice, and lay down. The flies came round the old woman and stung her as with a needle, so she cried to her daughter, “The flies are stinging me, my dear; do drive them away.” “Oh! I’ll drive them away, mother,” said the girl, lifting her pestle to the flies which had settled on her mother. Then, crying, “I’ll kill them!”, she smote her mother such a blow as to kill the old woman outright. Seeing what she had done the girl began to weep and cry, “Oh! mother, mother!”

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About Rohinī: a past life story
5. Rohiṇijātaka
About Rohinī: a past life story
5. Rohiṇijātaka
About Rohinī: a past life story5. Rohiṇijātaka

Better is an intelligent foe*Similar to the previous story, a servant girl kills her mother with a pestle while trying to rid her of flies.than a foolish sympathizer.*The initial yañce is hard to explain. The commentary offers several options, none of which are terribly convincing. The previous verse has na tveva, of which yañce might be an old corruption.See that wretched Rohinī,grieving after killing her mother.

“Seyyo amitto medhāvī, Yañce bālānukampako; Passa rohiṇikaṁ jammiṁ, Mātaraṁ hantvāna socatī”ti.

Better is an intelligent foe*Similar to the previous story, a servant girl kills her mother with a pestle while trying to rid her of flies.
“Seyyo amitto medhāvī,
than a foolish sympathizer.*The initial yañce is hard to explain. The commentary offers several options, none of which are terribly convincing. The previous verse has na tveva, of which yañce might be an old corruption.
Yañce bālānukampako;
See that wretched Rohinī,
Passa rohiṇikaṁ jammiṁ,
grieving after killing her mother.
Mātaraṁ hantvāna socatī”ti.

Better is an intelligent foe*Similar to the previous story, a servant girl kills her mother with a pestle while trying to rid her of flies.“Seyyo amitto medhāvī, than a foolish sympathizer.*The initial yañce is hard to explain. The commentary offers several options, none of which are terribly convincing. The previous verse has na tveva, of which yañce might be an old corruption.Yañce bālānukampako; See that wretched Rohinī,Passa rohiṇikaṁ jammiṁ, grieving after killing her mother.Mātaraṁ hantvāna socatī”ti.

Rohiṇijātakaṁ pañcamaṁ. *Rohiṇijātakaṁ → rohiṇījātakaṁ (sya1ed, sya2ed, pts-vp-pli1)

Rohiṇijātakaṁ pañcamaṁ. *Rohiṇijātakaṁ → rohiṇījātakaṁ (sya1ed, sya2ed, pts-vp-pli1)

Rohiṇijātakaṁ pañcamaṁ. *Rohiṇijātakaṁ → rohiṇījātakaṁ (sya1ed, sya2ed, pts-vp-pli1)