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SārambhajātakaJātaka 88 · 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
“Kalyāṇimeva muñceyya,
na hi muñceyya pāpikaṁ;
Mokkho kalyāṇiyā sādhu,
mutvā tappati pāpikan”ti.
English Chalmers 1895
"Speak kindly."--This story was told by the Master while at Sāvatthi, about the precept touching abusive language. The introductory story and the story of the past are the same as in the Nandivisāla-jātaka above 1.
But in this case [375] there is the difference that the Bodhisatta was an ox named Sārambha, and belonged to a brahmin of Takkasilā in the kingdom of Gandhāra. After telling the story of the past, the Master, as Buddha, uttered this stanza:--
Speak kindly, revile not your fellow;
Love kindness; reviling breeds sorrow.
When the Master had ended his lesson he identified the Birth by saying, "Ānanda was the brahmin of those days, Uppalavaṇṇā his wife, and I Sārambha."
Translator’s notes (1)
p. 217, n. 1 No. 28.