Vessantara-Jataka in Pali and English - MyWebSpace

Translation 540 Vessantara-Jåtaka
[Fausbøll, Jåtaka, vol. VI, p. 540]
When this he heard, the brahmin walked around him towards the right,
And went to seek Vessantara, his heart in high delight.
Jūjaka went on by the road pointed out to him by Accata the Hermit, and arrived at the
foursquare lake. "It is now late evening," he thought: "Maddī will by now be returned
from the forest, and women are always in the way. To-morrow, when she has gone into
the forest, I will go to Vessantara, and ask him for the children, and before she comes
back I will be away." So he climbed a flat-topt hill not far off, and lay down in a pleasant
spot. Now at dawn of the next morning, Maddī had a dream, and her dream was after this
fashion: A black man clothed in two yellow robes, with red flowers in his two ears, came
and entered the hut of leaves, clutched Maddī by the hair of her head and dragged her out,
threw her down on the ground backwards, and amidst her shrieks tore out her two eyes,
cut off two arms, cut open her breast, and tearing out the heart dripping with blood
carried it away. She awoke in affright, thinking—"An evil dream have I seen; I have no
one here but Vessantara to interpret my dream, so I will ask him about it."