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　　Cula Nandiya Jataka (223):

　　As a wise brahman teacher, Sariputta advises his pupil, Devadatta, not to be harsh, cruel and violent, but his exhortation is in vain.

　　Kundakakucchi Sindhava Jataka (254):

　　Sariputta, as a wondrous horse owned by the Bodhisatta, a horse-dealer, benefits an impoverished old woman who had owned the horse previously.

　　Jarudapana Jataka (256):

　　Sariputta, as a Naga king, helps the Bodhisatta, a merchant, to transport some treasure which the latter found.

　　Vyaggha Jataka (272):

　　In a former life as a Yakkha, the monk Kokalika could not live together with Sariputta and Maha Moggallana, nor could he live without them.

　　Romaka Jataka (277):

　　Sariputta, as a wise ascetic, instructs a partridge, the Bodhisatta.

　　Abbhantara (281) and Supatta (292) Jatakas:

　　Incidents of Sariputta”s last life. Rahula, whose mother is a bhikkhuni, requests the Venerable Sariputta to get sugared mango juice as a medicine for her flatulence, which he does. In (292), for another illness of hers, the Venerable Sariputta procures rice cooked with ghee and flavored with red fish (rohita-maccha).

　　Sayha Jataka (310):

　　Ananda, as a king sends his courtier, Sayha (Sariputta) to a friend of his youth (the Bodhisatta) who had become an ascetic, asking him in vain to return and be the court brahman.

　　Khantivadi Jataka (313):

　　When the Bodhisatta was a wise ascetic, the Preacher of Patience (Khantivadi), and was tortured by King Kalabu (Devadatta), Sariputta was that king”s commander-in-chief of the army. Sariputta bandaged the Bodhisatta”s wounds.

　　Mamsa Jataka (315):

　　Sariputta was a hunter and the Bodhisatta a merchant”s son. Addressing the hunter as ""friend," and winning him over with kind words, the Bodhisatta persuaded him to give up his cruel profession.

　　Vannoroha Jataka (361):

　　In their last lives, when the Great Disciples Sariputta and Maha Moggallana were living in solitude, a beggar who attended on them and ate the remnants of their food, tried to set them at variance but failed. Each of them just smiled at the calumnies and told to go away. The Jataka relates that the same had happened in an earlier life when the beggar was a jackal and Sariputta and Maha Moggallana were a lion and a tiger.

　　Kotisimbali Jataka (412):

　　Sariputta, as a king of the Garudas (supanna-raja) saves a tree which was the home of a tree spirit, the Bodhisatta.

　　Kanha Dipayana Jataka (444):

　　Sariputta is the ascetic Ani-Mandaviya. Impaled by the king on a false accusation, he bears the torture patiently and without resentment, knowing it to be the result of past evil kamma. The Bodhisatta is his brother-ascetic, Kanha Dipayana, who in an Act of Truth confesses that all throughout he has lived the ascetic life unwillingly, except for the first week.

　　Maha Paduma Jataka (472):

　　Sariputta, as a hill spirit, saves the life of the Bodhisatta, who is Prince Maha Paduma.

　　Appendix

　　A Note on the Relics of Sariputta and Maha Moggallana

　　On Sanchi Hill in Bhopal are the remains of ten stupas which are among the oldest buildings still standing in India. By their architectural features and sculpture they have always been recognised as belonging to the high noon of Buddhist art, the characters in which their numerous inscriptions are written placing them at about the period of Asoka; that is, some time around the middle of the third century B.C. Some are in good preservation, while others have been reduced in the course of centuries to mere mounds of earth and stone.

　　It was in one of these, the now famous Third Stupa, that Sir Alexander Cunningham discovered the sacred Body Relics of the Buddha”s Chief Disciples, Sariputta and Maha Moggallana, in 1851. At about the same time, more relics of the two great Arahats were found in a stupa at Satadhara, about six m…

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