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Pādańjali Jātaka (No. 247)
Brahmadatta, king of Benares, had a son Pādańjali, who was
an idle loafer. When the king died, the courtiers, headed by the Bodhisatta who
was the chaplain, went to test him. At everything the boy sneered with a
superior air, whether it were right or wrong; and the Bodhisatta was made king
in his stead.
The story was related in reference to
Lāludāyī, who once
curled his lip in scorn when the two chief disciples were praised. LāIudāyi is
identified with Pādańjali. J. ii.263f.

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