Preached to Upasálha. The story of the past is that of a brahmin Upasálhaka (identified with Upasálha). He instructed his son that after death he should be burnt in a cemetery unpolluted by the presence of outcasts. While descending Gijjhakúta, 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 Upasálha had been burnt fourteen thousand times, and preached to them the way of deathlessness (J.ii.54ff).
The Upasálhaka Játaka was preached by the Buddha to the novice Vanavásí-Tissa when the Buddha visited him in his forest solitude. DhA.ii.99.