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The eleventh Anga
[ I. Lect. 7.
as soon as they were born. Then at a certain time at midnight when that lady (lit. the wife of a householder) Gangadattā was keeping awake for family affairs the following thought occured to ber: “Truly, I have been enjoying excellent human enjoyments with the householder Sāgardatta for many years, but I have not given birth to any boy or girl. Therefore blessed, indeed, are those mothers, meritorious are they, happy are they and auspicious are they—those mothers, indeed, methinks, have well-earned the fruits of their human lives, whose wombs deliver pretty children, greedy to such milk from their mother's breasts, giving i sweet talk, warbling, nestling against the breasts and arm-pits, of their mothers,-children that are placed on the laps of their motbers by being clasped with their lotus-like delicate hands, and that give again and again sweet and warbling talk. I am, indeed, unblessed, unmeritorious, and unhappy as I have not yet given birth to even one such a child. It would be good, therefore, that tc-morrow ( here the rest to be supplied, down to ) when the sun wil be shining, I, having taken the permission of the householder Sāgardatta, and having taken with me many flowers, garments, scents and ornaments, and in the company of many friends, caste-persons, my own near relatives, kinsmen, acquaintances, attendants and women, should go out of the city of Pādalasanda, and having clone so to go outside it to where the abo te of the demigod Umbaradatta is, and per.
