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Dhanasarma made one of the monks forget his bundle of clothes at a small farm, the last one in their sojourn. The monk collected his bundle but was surprised to see that there was no cattle anywhere around. He realised that it was an illusion created by some divine power (which the monk suspected Dhanasarmā to possess). When asked Dhanasarmā duly acknowledged the power and declared his intention to depart from the group. He bowed to all the monks but not to Dhanamitra who, he said, had asked him to drink the water of the river they had all crossed. He said had he drunk it, he would have gone into the never-ending cycle of life and death like all sinners and as such his father had done him an unfair turn. So he would not bow to him.
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