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KULLAVAGGA.
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prince Agâtasattu terrified, and startled, and anxious,
and alarmed.
VII, 2, 2.
And Devadatta said to prince Agâtasattu, 'Are you afraid of me, O prince?' 'Yes, I am. Who are you?'
'I am Devadatta.'
'If you, Sir, are really the worthy Devadatta, be good enough to appear in your own shape.'
Then Devadatta, laying aside the form of the child, appeared there before prince Agâtasattu with his inner and outer robes on, and with his bowl in his hand. And prince Agâtasattu was well pleased with Devadatta by reason of this marvel of Iddhi, and morning and evening he used to go in five hundred chariots to wait upon him, and food was brought and laid before him in five hundred dishes.
Then there arose in Devadatta's mind, possessed and vanquished by gain and hospitality and fame 1, some such thought as this: 'It is I who ought to lead the Bhikkhu-samgha.' And as the idea rose up within him, (that moment) was Devadatta deprived of that his power of Iddhi.
2. Now at that time a Koliyan, by name Kakudha, who had been (as Bhikkhu) the attendant on Moggallâna, had just died, and had appeared again in a certain spiritual body, possessed of a personality as large as two or three of the common rice-fields of a Magadha village, and yet so constituted that he was
1 Compare Mahâvagga V, 1, 22, on this expression. Also below, § 5.
Aññataram manomayam kâyam upapanno. Perhaps 'in a mode of existence in which his body was changeable at will.' (See Childers, sub voce mano mayo.)
Attabhâvo. See IX, 1, 3.
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| SR No. | 007684 |
| Book Title | Vinaya Texts |
| 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 |