Khanti

Jātaka No. 523: Sakka sends the nymph Alambusā to break the ascetic Isisiṅga's virtue. After three lost years he wakes, repents and recovers his meditation.

An ascetic's all-night walking meditation beside a sleeping caravan leads waiting robbers to take him for a sentry, and at dawn they throw down their weapons.

Naga king Campeyya keeps his Uposatha vows despite capture and torture by a snake-charmer, enduring without anger to seek human rebirth and awakening.

A corrupt chaplain engineers a prince's sacrifice for a false path to heaven, until the prince's wife speaks a truth that brings a god to intervene.

Jātaka No. 443: A king takes Bodhikumāra's former wife, and the ascetic quenches rising anger with loving-kindness, then teaches the king its harm.

Grieving a runaway queen, a king watches a sword-swallower until his counselor Senaka reveals a harder feat: a promised gift given and never regretted.

Prince Dīghāvu finds the king who destroyed his family helpless in a forest, recalls his parents' counsel, and answers hatred with mercy.

Jataka No. 513: Prince Alinasattu offers his life to a man-eating ogre for his father, and his fearless truth reveals the ogre as lost kin.

Jātaka No. 440: Sakka mocks Kaṇha's dark colour, and the sage replies that blackness lies in wrongdoing, asking only for freedom from hatred and harm.

A courtier demands punishment for a servant's betrayal while guilty of the same wrong himself; a king's gentle reply teaches patience over hypocrisy.

An ascetic known for teaching patience answers a king's jealous cruelty with unbroken forgiveness, even as his own body is destroyed before him.

A trivial dispute splits the Kosambī Sangha; the Buddha's nine verses on Prince Dīghāvu teach that hatred never ceases by hatred, only by love.

Falsely accused by his lustful stepmother, Prince Mahā-Paduma is hurled from a cliff, saved by a mountain deity and Nāga king, and forgives his father.

A monkey who rescues a starving man from a deadly pit is struck with a stone while sleeping, and still guides his betrayer safely home, bleeding the whole way.

A king refuses to fight through three staged raids, then after being buried alive escapes, judges two spirits fairly, and spares the captor who buried him.

A monkey torments a patient buffalo, and when a tree spirit asks why he won't retaliate, he predicts a harsher buffalo will end the mischief instead.

The outcaste sage Matanga wins a merchant's daughter by fasting after being beaten, later correcting their arrogant son with compassion rather than anger.

Sakka contrives a drought to break ascetic Isisiṅga's power; Princess Naḷinikā seduces him, rain falls that day, and his father restores his vows.

Haunted by remorse, a king recalls the friend who once warned him. The ascetic Sankicca returns from the Himalayas to teach him the two roads, right and wrong.

A brahmin's ox Sarambha refuses to pull a hundred carts after harsh words cost a wager, then draws them all with ease once addressed kindly.

A park keeper mistakes a Pacceka Buddha for a deer in the dusk, and a king keeps silent until his anger has passed, pardoning the man in the third year.

Faced with slaughter by drunkards at a feast, a terrified young pig is comforted by his elder brother's teaching on virtue and fearless death.

A young ascetic raised in forest solitude is lured to the city by a woman, worked like a water-pot plunged endlessly into a well, and finally flees home.