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SELASUTTA.
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while Keniya, the Gatila, was sitting down apart, Bhagavat delighted him with these stanzas:
21. ‘The principal thing in sacrifice is the sacred fire, the principal thing amongst the hymns is the Savitti', the king is the principal amongst men, and the sea the principal amongst waters (nadinama). (568)
22. ‘Amongst the stars the moon is the principal thing, the sun is the principal thing amongst the burning 3 (objects), amongst those that wish for good works and make offerings the assembly (samgha) indeed is the principal.'
(569) Then Bhagavat, having delighted Keniya, the Gatila, with these stanzas, rose from (his) seat and went away.
Then the venerable Sela together with his assembly leading a solitary, retired, strenuous, ardent, energetic life, lived after having in a short time in this existence by his own understanding ascertained and possessed himself of that highest perfection of a religious life for the sake of which men of good family rightly wander away from their houses to a houseless state ; 'birth (had been destroyed, a religious life (had been) led, what was to be done (had been done, there was nothing else (to be done) for this existence,' so he perceived, and the venerable Sela together with his assembly became one of the saints.
Then the venerable Sela together with his assembly went to Bhagavat, and having gone (to him) he put his upper robe on one shoulder, and bending his joined hands towards Bhagavat he addressed him in stanzas: i Sâvittî khandaso mukham. Comp. Nálakasutta v. 42.
3 Adikko tapatam mukham.
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| SR No. | 007674 |
| Book Title | Dhammapada |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Max Muller |
| Publisher | Oxford |
| Publication Year | 1881 |
| Total Pages | 2540 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 45 MB |