Prince Sattva (Mahasattva Jataka)
Prince Sattva (also known as Prince Mahasattva) is the Bodhisattva in one of the most famous Jataka tales — the story of the starving tigress, from the Jataka-mala (Garland of Birth Stories) by Aryasura. In this past life, the future Buddha was born as Prince Sattva, the youngest son of a king. While wandering in the forest with his two elder brothers, they discovered a starving tigress near a mountain gorge. The tigress was so weak from hunger that she could not nurse her newborn cubs and was on the verge of eating them out of desperation. Overwhelmed with compassion, Prince Sattva sent his b