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spoken of a Bodhisatra and the story of Bodhisatva's birth is narrated
in the Jataka tales.
In the beginning of the J膩taka tales, there introduced a person
named Sumedha who on meeting Dipankara (the Buddha of the age)
and hearing his sermons decides to become a Buddha himself. He
then scrupulously follows the law and, after death, undergoes a series
of births in various forms and places, and at last becomes Santasita,
by which name he is known during his stay in Tusita heaven prior to
his last descent to earth as Siddh膩rtha. In the J膩taka tales five
hundred and fifty Bodhisatva's are mentioned of there" eighty-three
times he was an ascetic, a monarch, the Deva of a tree, a religious
teacher, a learned man, the Deva 艢akra, an ape, a merchant, a man of
wealth, a deer, a peacock, a fish, an elephant etc. The following are
some of the J膩taka tales.
iv) Bodhisatva as a Lion
Once the Bodhisatva was born as a lion, when he grew strong and
beautiful animal, he made his home in a forest near the western
ocean.
On the shores of the western ocean there lived a hare. One day,
the hare after feeding, laid himself down to sleep under a young palm
tree which stood under a vixlva tree. He could not get sleep but lay
awake thinking, "If the earth should be destroyed, "thought the hare,
"what would become of me ?鈥�. Just as this thought came to the mind of
the hare, a large fruit of the Bilva tree fell on a palm leaf and made a