Vinaya Texts

SR No.: 007684
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: T W Rhys Davids, Hermann Oldenberg
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1881
Total Pages: 2523
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 47 MB

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And after a long drive, O Bhikkhus, king Brahmadatta of Kâsi said to young Dighâvu: "Well, my young friend, stop now the chariot. I am tired; I would lie down."
MAHAVAGGA.
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'Young Dighâvu, O Bhikkhus, accepted this order of king Brahmadatta of Kâsi (by saying), "Yes, Your Majesty," stopped the chariot, and sat down on the ground cross-legged. And king Brahmadatta of Kâsi, O Bhikkhus, lay down, laying his head in the lap of young Dighâvu; and as he was tired, he fell asleep in a moment.
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16. And young Dighâvu thought, O Bhikkhus : This king Brahmadatta of Kâsi has done much harm to us. By him we have been robbed of our troops and vehicles, our realm, our treasuries and storehouses. And he has killed my father and mother. Now the time has come to me to satisfy my hatred,"-(thinking thus) he unsheathed his sword. Then, O Bhikkhus, young Dighâvu thought: "My father said to me in the hour of his death: 'Do not look long, my dear Dighâvu, and do not look short. For not by hatred, my dear Dighâvu, is hatred appeased; by not-hatred, my dear Dighâvu, hatred is appeased.' It would not become me to transgress my father's word,"-(thinking thus) he put up his sword.
'And for the second time . . . and for the third time young Dighâvu thought, O Bhikkhus: "This king Brahmadatta of Kâsi has done much harm to us" (&c., down to :)-(thinking thus) he put up his sword.
'At that moment, O Bhikkhus, king Brahmadatta of Kâsi, frightened, terrified, full of anguish, and alarmed, suddenly arose.
'And young Dighâvu, O Bhikkhus, said to king
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