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the place where you were, and having approached you and respectfully saluted you, stood in the four directions like great firebrands ?'
They were the four Mahârâgas, Kassapa, who came to me in order to hear my preaching.'
Then the Gatila Uruvelâ Kassapa thought : ‘Truly the great Samana possesses high magical powers and great faculties, since even the four Mahârâgas come to hear his preaching. He is not, however, holy like me.'
And the Blessed One ate the food offered by the Gatila Uruvelâ Kassapa, and continued to stay in that same grove.
End of the second Wonder.
17. 1. And on a beautiful night Sakka (Sakra or Indra) the king of the devas, filling the whole grove with light by the brilliancy of his complexion, went to the place where the Blessed One was; having approached him and respectfully saluted the Blessed One, he stood near him like a great firebrand, surpassing in beauty and brilliancy the splendour of the former appearances.
2. And when that night had elapsed (&c., as in chap. 16. 2).
End of the third Wonder.
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