ajata-satru

Updated: May 16, 2025

Binbisara, he who commanded that an ascetic should be slain before his pre-ordained time was come, by his own son was imprisoned in a seven-walled prison as the due recompense of his violence. Ajata-Satru, prince and heir of Magadha, denouncing his mother as a traitor, with drawn sword ran furiously upon her.

Shinran - Wisdom of the East : Buddhist Psalms translated from the Japanese of Shinran Shonin

For when the full time was come that by the will of our Lord and of Vaidehi the teaching of the Pure Land should be made known here on Earth, Ajata-Satru, her son, sinned this sin, Varshakara his minister bearing testimony against it.

Shinran - Wisdom of the East : Buddhist Psalms translated from the Japanese of Shinran Shonin