Dana

Anathapindika bought Prince Jeta's grove by covering it entirely in gold coins, building the Jetavana Monastery where the Buddha spent nineteen rainy seasons.

King Bharata of Roruka keeps the precepts, throws jasmine toward the four directions, and draws seven Paccekabuddhas from the Himalayan Nandamula cave, who answer his feast with eight verses.

Jātaka No. 480: Akitti gives away eighty crores, lives on soaked leaves, gives them to Sakka three days running, and asks only that Sakka never return.

A tree deity facing a king's axe asks to be cut apart piece by piece rather than felled whole, so the saplings sheltered beneath it survive.

Sakka and four divine descendants, disguised as brahmins, visit the miser Biḷārikosiya through seven gates, expose his false hospitality, and reveal his own generous lineage to restore him.

Mittavindaka kicks his devout mother and drifts through four palaces of pleasure before seizing a hellish razor-wheel. The Buddha, once Sakka, told this of a disobedient monk.

Jataka No. 456: A poor student breaks a brahmin's bowl and vows to repay him as king one day; years later King Junha, told at Jetavana of Ananda.

A garland-maker's daughter becomes queen the same day she gives away her gruel, and the Buddha answers the monks' wonder with his own ancient breakfast story.

A poor old woman raises a colt on rice-powder, loving him as her own son; he becomes a peerless thoroughbred, echoing her present devotion to Elder Sariputta.

A miser dies childless, never having enjoyed his wealth. The Buddha traces this to a spoiled gift and fratricide, via the parable of a bird that cries 'Mine!'

Jataka No. 541: King Nimi of Mithila asks whether the holy life or almsgiving bears more fruit. Sakka answers, then Matali drives him through hell and heaven.

King Sādhīna's fast-day vows and charity carry him bodily to Tāvatiṃsa; after 700 years he refuses to live on a god's merit and returns to earn his own.

Brahmin Saṅkha (No. 442) gives his shoes to a Paccekabuddha, then survives a shipwreck by swimming seven days until the sea-goddess Maṇimekhalā rescues him with a jeweled ship.

Jataka No. 316: a hare with nothing but grass to offer vows his own body to a beggar, and Sakka marks his perfect gift upon the face of the moon.

King Sivi vows to give even his own eyes if asked, and when a disguised god asks exactly that, he gives both and regains sight through pure truth.

Miserly treasurer Kosiya is converted by Sakka's descending brahmin-gods, then as a hermit judges Sakka's four daughters and gives ambrosia only to Honour.

Queen Sumedhā's Act of Truth moves Sakka to send a deva to be born as Prince Mahā-Panāda, whom no entertainer can make smile until Sakka's own Half-Body Dance succeeds.

When Sakka makes the merchant Visayha's fortune vanish to stop his almsgiving, he cuts grass, gives away the coins it earns, and faints from fasting; rebuked and answered, Sakka restores his wealth.