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Śri Vira, bowed, and said:
"Blessed One, go elsewhere. The man deserving honor is honored everywhere. Only here am I respected. Even my name is not known elsewhere. For a jackal has courage only in his own cave, not outside. I have experienced the fruit of any disrespect I showed you from ignorance, Lord. Now take pity on me." As the Blessed One had taken a vow to avoid hostile persons, he went to the hamlet Uttaracāvāla.
CHAPTER THREE
Beginning of nudity (219-224)
There are two hamlets named Cavala, Dakṣiņa (South) and Uttara (North). Between them there are two rivers, Suvarṇaväluka and Rūpyavālukā. As he was going from Dakṣiṇacāvāla to Uttaracāvāla, the Lord's fine half-garment caught on a thorn tree on the bank of Suvarṇavāluka. When he had gone a little distance, the Lord looked at the half garment with the thought, May it not go to waste on the rough ground," and then turned to go on. The Brahman, who was following the Lord, got the half-garment at the end of the thirteenth month and went away, after he had paid homage to the Lord. Delighted, the Brahman gave it to the same tailor who joined the halves of the divine garment as if it had no seam. The Brahman and the tailor received a lac of dinars as its price and divided it equally, like brothers.
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Episode of Candakausika (225-280)
Now the Blessed Vira, unstumbling like the wind, was told by herdsboys as he went towards Svetavi: Reverend sir, this straight road leads to Svetavi. However, on it there is a hermitage named Kanakakhala. Now it is occupied by a serpent poisoning by its look. Only the wind passes; even birds do not appear. So, leave that road and go by the roundabout one. What is the use of gold because of which the ear would be cut off?"
The Lord knew that in a former birth the serpent was an
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