Text of Confucianism Part 02

SR No.: 007676
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: James Legge
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1882
Total Pages: 2405
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 43 MB

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VII, 1, 3.
DISSENSIONS IN THE ORDER.
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to Anuruddha the Sakyan, and said: “You two, O beloved Anuruddha, are my two only sons, near and dear to me, in whom I find no evil. Through death I shall some day, against my will be separated from you; but how can I be willing, whilst you are still alive, that you should go forth from the household life into the houseless state ?'
[And a second time Anuruddha the Sakyan made the same request, and received the same reply. And a third time Anuruddha the Sakyan made the same request to his mother.]
3. Now at that time Bhaddiya the Sakya Râga held rule over the Sakyas; and he was a friend of Anuruddha the Sakyan's. And the mother of Anuruddha the Sâkyan, thinking that that being So, the Râga would not be able to renounce the world, said to her son: If, beloved Anuruddha, Bhaddiya the Sakyan Râga will renounce the world, thou also mayest go forth into the houseless state.
Then Anuruddha the Sakyan went to Bhaddiya the Sakyan Râga, and said to him : My renunciation of the world, dear friend, is being obstructed by thee.'
*Then let that obstruction, dear friend, be removed. Even with thee will I-renounce thou the world according to thy wish.'
Come, dear friend, let us both renounce the world together!'
1 A ham taya. Buddhaghosa explains that the Raga is beginning to say that he will go with his friend. But a desire for the glory of sovereignty comes over his heart, and he leaves the sentence unfinished. (The Pali is given in the notes on the text, p. 323.)
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