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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MAHÂVAGGA.
VI, 34, 2.
by making showers of grain fall down from the sky, His wife was possessed of this miraculous power : When she sat down beside a pint? pot and vessel for curry and sauce she could serve the serving men with food; and so long as she did not get up, it was not exhausted. Their son was possessed of this miraculous power : He could take a bag containing a thousand?, and give to each serving man six months' wages; and so long as he held it in his hand, it was not exhausted.
2. Their daughter-in-law was possessed of this miraculous power : When she sat down beside a four-bushel basket she could give six months' rice to the serving men; and so long as she did not get up, it was not exhausted. Their slave was possessed of this miraculous power : When he ploughed with one plough-share seven furrows were formed.
3, 4. Now the Mâgadha king Seniya' Bimbisâra heard : 'In Bhaddiya-nagara in our kingdom there dwells, they say, a householder named Mendaka, who is possessed (&c., as in $S 1, 2, down to the end).
5. Then the Magadha king Seniya Bimbisâra said to a certain minister who had charge of general affairs: “They say, good Sir, that in Bhaddiyanagara (&c., as above). Go, good Sir, and find out about this. When you have seen it, it shall be the same as if I myself had seen it.'
'Even so, Lord,' said that minister, in assent, to the Mâgadha king Seniya Bimbisâra, and he set out for Bhaddiya-nagara with his fourfold host.
6. And proceeding straight on he came to Bhaddiya-nagara, and to the place where the householder
i Alhaka. See Rh. D., 'Ancient Coins and Measures,' p. 18. * Ibid. p. 9 and note 4.
8 Dona. Ibid. p. 18.
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