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SirikāḷakaṇṇijātakaJātaka 192 · 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 (2 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
“Itthī siyā rūpavatī,
sā ca sīlavatī siyā;
Puriso taṁ na iccheyya,
saddahāsi mahosadha”.
“Saddahāmi mahārāja,
puriso dubbhago siyā;
Sirī ca kāḷakaṇṇī ca,
na samenti kudācanan”ti.
English Rouse 1895
"Even though women may be fair," etc.--This story will be given in the Mahā-ummagga-Jātaka 3.
Translator’s notes (2)
p. 80, n. 2 Cf. Thibetan Tales, xxi. pp. 291-5, "How a Woman Requites Love."
p. 80, n. 3 No. 538 in Westergaard.