Generosity

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.

Sankha gives half his fortune to save his ruined friend Piliya; when Sankha is ruined in turn, Piliya offers him only spoiled bran.

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.

A miser's own father, reborn a god, disguises himself identically to correct his son's hoarding, and even the family barber cannot tell the two apart.

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!'

A parrot king (No. 484) carries rice from a Brahmin's field to his parents; snared, he explains his threefold use of grain, and accepts just eight acres.

In Jataka No. 462, the youngest of a hundred princes wins the throne through virtue, then disarms his ninety-nine hostile brothers through generosity alone.

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.

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.