Upasāḷhajātaka untranslated

Upasāḷhajātaka (Ja 166). Preached to Upasāḷha. The story of the past is that of a Brahmin Upasāḷhaka (identified with Upasāḷha). He instructed his son that after death he should be burnt in a cemetery unpolluted by the presence of outcastes. While descending Gijjhakūṭa, having ascended the mountain in order to find such a spot, they met the Bodhisatta, who was a holy ascetic, possessed of various attainments and mystic powers. When the Bodhisatta had heard their story, he revealed to them that on that very same spot Upasāḷha had been burnt fourteen thousand times, and preached to them the way of deathlessness (Ja.ii.54ff).

The Upasāḷhakajātaka was preached by the Buddha to the novice Vanavāsītissa when the Buddha visited him in his forest solitude. Dhp­a.ii.99.