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was called Gotama's gate. And the Blessed One went on to the river. At that time the river Ganges was brimful and overflowing1; and wishing to cross to the opposite bank, some began to seek for boats, some for rafts of wood, while some made rafts of basket-work.
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13. And the Blessed One saw those people who wished to cross to the opposite bank, some seeking for boats, some for rafts of wood, and some making rafts of basket-work. When he saw them, he vanished as quickly as a strong man might stretch his bent arm out, or draw back his outstretched arm, from this side of the river Ganges, and stood on the further bank with the company of the Bhikkhus.
And the Blessed One, perceiving all this, on this occasion, pronounced this solemn utterance:
'They who cross the ocean's floods making a solid path across the pools
'Whilst the vain world ties its basket rafts: these are the wise, these are the saved indeed.'
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I. And the Blessed One went to Kotigâma. There at Kotigâma the Blessed One resided. And the Blessed One thus addressed the Bhikkhus:
'It is through not understanding and grasping four Noble Truths, O Bhikkhus, that we have had to run so long, to wander so long in this weary path of transmigration, both you and I. And what are
1 Samatitthikâ. This word is replaced by samatîrthikâ at Lal. Vist. pp. 501, 528. Compare, however, Rh. D.'s note on Tevigga Sutta I, 24 (Buddhist Suttas,' p. 178).
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