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[Full title: Didactic stories; (A) Religious cum Moral Stories; (29) The previous birth of Raksasa Taditkesa or the story of Datta and a hunter]

It is narrated following the adoption of the figure of Vanara (monkey) as the state emblem by Amaraprabha. Once the wife of Taditkesa, the Raksasa king of Lanka, was injured by a monkey while sporting in a garden. That monkey was killed by the king. The monkey then being reborn as Udadhikumara, a celestial being again disturbed the king sporting there. When Taditkasa questioned the celestial being, the latter related the previous incident. At this both of them proceeded to a monk and enquired about the cause of their transmigration. The monk the story illustrating the consequences of nursing the feeling of revenge (6.134-147). Having listened to the story Taditkesa installed his son Sukesa and himself renounced the world. narrated Two persons killing each other were reborn one as a hunter in Banaras and the other as Datta, the son of a minister in Sravasti, respectively. The latter became a monk and sojourned at Kasipura in He a garden. When he was meditating, that hunter arrived there. abused and beat the monk. As the monk became angry and thought of beating the hunter in his turn, he lost the valuable fruits of his Therefrom he penances and was reborn as an inferior celestial being. descended as Taditkesa while the hunter was reborn as a monkey. The Paumacariya (6.227-328) and the Paumacariu (6.10-16) agree with the Paumacariya The Ramapurana of Bhattaraka Somasena. (ch. 4) contains minor differences as regards the places of rebirth. The Trishashti Shalaka Purusha-caritra (IV. p. 110) states that the hunter killed the mendicant. The hunter is said to have first passed through the hellish life and then was reborn as a monkey.