…punishment with careful measure:…
“Prince, enjoy the wealth you own,
And ascend the kuru throne.
Do not leave the world, to bring
Sorrow on yourself–be king!”
“What of joy can this world give?
When in heaven I used to live
There were sights and sounds and smell,
Taste and touch , the heart loves well!
“Joys of heaven, and nymphs divine,
I renounced, that once were mine.
With a king so weak as you
I will stay no longer now.”
“If I am foolish-weak, my son,
This once forgive me what I’ve done.
And if I do the same again,
Do what you will, I’ll not complain.”
The great being then repeated eight stanzas, addressing the king.
“A thoughtless act, or done without premeditation had,
Like the miscarriage of a drug, the issue must be bad.
“A thoughtful act, in which is careful policy pursued,
Like a successful medicine, the issue must be good.
“The idle sensual layman I detest,
The false ascetic is a rogue contest;
A bad king will a case unheard decide;
Anger in a sage can never be justified .
“The warrior prince takes careful thought, and well-weighed judgement gives:
When kings their judgement think well, their fame for ever lives.
“Kings should give punishment with careful measure:
Things done in haste they will repent at leisure.
Are there good resolutions in the heart,
No late repentance brings her bitter smart.
“They who do deeds which no repentance bring,
Carefully weighing every single thing,
Gain what is good, and do what satisfies
The holy, win the approval of the wise.
“What ho, my executioners!” you cried,
“Go seek my son, and where you find him, kill!”
Where I was sitting by my mother’s side
They found me, dragged me cruelly away.
“A tender nursling, treated in this way,
I felt their cruel handling very painful.
Delivered from a cruel doom to-day
I’ll leave the world, and live in it no more.”
When the great being had thus given discourse, the king said to his queen,
“So my young son, sudhamma, says me no,
Prince somanassa, delicate and kind.
Now since I cannot gain my end to-day,
Yourself must see if you can turn his mind.”
But she urged him to renounce the world in this stanza:
“O be the holy life your happiness, son!
Renounce the world, to righteousness stick fast:
Who of all creatures cruel is to none,
Blameless to brahma’s world will come at last.”
CLT_505_Who does you harm, JATAKA, Khuddaka Nikaya “Short Passages, W.H.D. Rouse (Jun 2024)
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Collection of Little Texts.
Khuddaka Nikaya “The Short Passages”
Book XV. VISATI-NIPATA:
Somanassa-jataka “Who does you harm
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