The Bodhisatta's Sacrifice
…n he knew his mother was dead, called to his father and went and made a funeral pile and burned her body. After extinguishing the flames, he made offerings of various coloured flowers, and with weeping an…
The Bodhisatta bids farewell to his mother Yakkha, grieving her death after she collapses from sorrow. He honors her with a funeral pyre and returns to Benares with his father. Upon his arrival, he de