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MAHÂ-PARINIBBÂNA-SUTTA.
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31. Then Ânanda thought: 'How wonderful, how marvellous is the great might and power of the Tathagata ! For this streamlet which, stirred up by the wheels, was but just now become shallow and flowing foul and turbid, now, as I come up to it, is flowing clear and bright and free from all turbidity.'
32. And taking water in the bowl he returned towards the Blessed One; and when he had come where the Blessed One was he said to him : 'How wonderful, how marvellous is the great might and power of the Tathagata! For this streamlet which, stirred up by the wheels, was but just now become shallow and flowing foul and turbid, now, as I come up to it, is flowing clear and bright and free from all turbidity. Let the Blessed One drink the water! Let the Happy One drink the water !'
Then the Blessed One drank of the water.
33. Now at that time a man named Pukkusa", a young Mallian, a disciple of Alara Kâlâma's, was passing along the high road from Kusinârâ to Pâvâ.
34. And Pukkusa, the young Mallian, saw the Blessed One seated at the foot of a tree. On seeing him, he went up to the place where the Blessed One was, and when he had come there he saluted the Blessed One, and took his rest respectfully on one side. And when he was seated
1 The Pukkusa caste was one of the lower castes of Sadras. Compare Assâlâyana Sutta (Pischel), pp. 13, 35; Burnouf's 'Introduction,' &c., pp. 144, 208; Lalita Vistara XXI, 17. But Buddhaghosa says Pukkusa must here be simply a name, as the Mallas were of the Khattiya caste. He adds that this Pukkusa was the owner of the five hundred carts that had just passed by; and that Âlâra Kâlâma was called Alära because he was Dîgha-pingalo, Kâlâma being his family name.
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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 |