The Second Treatise on the Perfections – 2824
As has been mentioned before, the truth told so that one will be believed by
others of the Birth Story about the Lotus Stalks; the truth told so that one’s wish
may be fulfilled of the Wise Suvaṇṇasāma (Ja 540), the Wise Mariner Suppāraka
(Ja 463), King Sivi (Ja 499), the Fish (Ja 34), the Young Quail (Ja 35),
Kaṇhadīpāyana (Ja 444), Naḷapāna (Ja 20), Sambulā (Ja 519), Temiya (Ja 538),
Janaka (Ja 539), Kaṭṭhavāhana (Ja 7) and the Peacock (Ja 491) and the truth told
so that telling lies may be avoided by Vidhura (Ja 545), Suvaṇṇasāma (Ja 540)
and Bhūridatta (Ja 543), produced results as soon as they were individually
spoken out. There was nothing more to be performed to achieve results.
Therefore, such truths are to be known as truth that accomplishes something the
moment one speaks (
vacī-bheda-siddhi-sacca
).
But the truthfulness shown by King Sutasoma to Porisāda in the above-
mentioned the Birth Story about Mahā Sutasoma (Ja 537) was different. It was a
truth told so that one will be believed by others (
sadda-hāpana-sacca
), spoken to
convince Porisāda that he would definitely return to him. This promise would be
fulfilled when the king returned to the cannibal, and only then would his
truthfulness be established. For this, he had to make special arrangements to
effect his return to the Bodhisatta. This truthfulness of King Sutasoma was
therefore of the truth that entails a follow-up after one has spoken
(
pacchānurakkhaṇa-sacca
).
In the same way, the truthfulness practised by King Jayaddisa in the Birth Story
about Prince Jayaddisa (
Jayaddisa-jātaka
, Ja 513) and that practised by Prince
Rāma in the Birth Story about Rāma’s Father, King Dasaratha (
Dasaratha-
jātaka
, Ja 461) are both truths that entail a follow-up after one has spoken
(
pacchānurakkhaṇa-sacca
).
The Birth Story about Prince Jayaddisa
With reference to King Jayaddisa’s truthfulness, here is the story in brief
(
Jayaddisa-jātaka
, Ja 513). While King Jayaddisa of the city of Uttara Pañcāla,
in the kingdom of Kapila, was going on a hunting spree, on the way, he met the
Brahmin Nanda, who had come back from Takkasilā and who wished to deliver
a discourse. The king promised to hear the discourse from him on his return and
went to the forest.
On arrival in the forest, the king and his ministers divided the hunting ground
among themselves, each one had his own allocated area to catch deer. But one