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KakaṇṭakajātakaJātaka 170 · Volume 2, translated by W. H. D. Rouse (1895)
Public domain. W. H. D. Rouse’s translation was published in 1895. The Pali is the Mahāsaṅgīti edition published by SuttaCentral under CC0. The canonical Pali Jātaka consists of the verses only (5 verses here); the prose story around them comes from the later commentary, which the English translates in full. So the verses are shown beside the whole English story, not verse by verse.
Pali verses
“Nāyaṁ pure uṇṇamati,
toraṇagge kakaṇṭako;
Mahosadha vijānāhi,
kena thaddho kakaṇṭako”.
“Aladdhapubbaṁ laddhāna,
aḍḍhamāsaṁ kakaṇṭako;
Atimaññati rājānaṁ,
vedehaṁ mithilaggahan”ti.
Kakaṇṭakajātakaṁ dasamaṁ.
Santhavavaggo dutiyo.
Tassuddānaṁ
Atha indasamāna sapaṇṇakuṭi,
Susimuttama gijjha jalābujako;
Upasāḷaka bhikkhu salāpavaro,
Atha mettavaro dasapuṇṇamatīti.
English Rouse 1895
[63] This Kakaṇṭaka Birth will be given below in the Mahā-Ummagga Birth 1.
Translator’s notes (1)
p. 43, n. 1 No. 538 in Westergaard's Catalogue.