Dhammapada

SR No.: 007674
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

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THE BOOK OF THE GREAT DECEASE.
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Lord, about five hundred carts have gone over. That water stirred up by the wheels has become shallow and flows fouled and turbid. This river Kakutthâ, Lord, not far off, is clear and pleasant, cool and transparent, easy to get down into, and delightful. There the Blessed One may both drink the water, and cool his limbs?'
27. Again the second time the Blessed One addressed the venerable Ananda, and said: 'Fetch me, I pray you, Ananda, some water. I am thirsty, Ananda, and would drink:
28. And again the second time the venerable Ânanda said to the Blessed One: "But just now, Lord, about five hundred carts have gone over. That water stirred up by the wheels has become shallow and flows fouled and turbid. This river Kakuttha, Lord, not far off, is clear and pleasant, cool and transparent, easy to get down into, and delightful. There the Blessed One may both drink the water, and cool his limbs.'
29. Again the third time the Blessed One addressed the venerable Ânanda, and said: 'Fetch me, I pray you, Ananda, some water. I am thirsty, Ânanda, and would drink.'
30. 'Even so, Lord!' said the venerable Ânanda, in assent, to the Blessed One; and taking a bowl he went down to the streamlet. And lo! the streamlet which, stirred up by the wheels, was but just now become shallow, and was flowing fouled and turbid, had begun, when the venerable Ananda came up to it, to flow clear and bright and free from all turbidity.
1 Akkhodikâ ti pasannodikâ: sâtodikâ ti madhurodhikâ: sitodika ti tanu - sîtala - salilâ: setaka ti nikkad dama: supatitthâ ti sundara-titthâ. (S. V. thri.) Comp. IV, 56.
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