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MittavindakajātakaJātaka 82 · Volume 1, translated by Robert Chalmers (1895)
Public domain. Robert Chalmers’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 (1 verse 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
“Atikkamma ramaṇakaṁ,
sadāmattañca dūbhakaṁ;
Svāsi pāsāṇamāsīno,
yasmā jīvaṁ na mokkhasī”ti.
English Chalmers 1895
"No more to dwell."--This story was told by the Master while at Jetavana, about a self-willed Brother. The incidents of this Birth, which took place in the days of the Buddha Kassapa, will be related in the Tenth Book in the Mahā-Mittavindaka Jātaka 1.
Then the Bodhisatta uttered this Stanza:--
No more to dwell in island palaces
Of crystal, silver, or of sparkling gems,--
With flinty headgear thou’rt invested now;
Nor shall its griding torture ever cease
Till all thy sin be purged and life shall end.
So saying, the Bodhisatta passed to his own abode among the Devas. And Mittavindaka, having donned that headgear, suffered grievous torment till his sin had been spent and he passed away to fare according to his deserts.
His lesson ended, the Master identified the Birth, by saying, "This self-willed Brother was the Mittavindaka of those days, and I myself the King of the Devas."
Translator’s notes (1)
p. 209, n. 1 No. 439. See No. 41, and Divyāvadāna, p. 603, &c.