Khandhavattajātaka untranslated

Khandhavattajātaka (Ja 203). The Bodhisatta was once born in Kāsi, and later became an ascetic. On it being reported to him that many ascetics died of snake-bite, he gathered them together and taught them how, by cultivating love for the four royal races of snakes – the Virūpakkhas, the Erāpattas, the Chabbyāputtas, and the Kaṇhagotamas – they could prevent themselves from ever being bitten by any creature.

The story was told in reference to a monk who died of snake-bite. Ja.ii.144ff. cf. Vin.ii.109f.

The story is evidently an expansion of the Khandaparitta.