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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MAHẢVAGGA.
VI, 30, 3.
went in the carriage as far as the ground was passable for carriages; there she alighted; and she proceeded on foot to the place where the Blessed One was. Having approached him and respectfully saluted the Blessed One, she sat down near him.
2. When she was sitting near him, the Blessed One taught, incited, animated, and gladdened the courtezan Ambapâli by religious discourse. And the courtezan Ambapali, having been taught, &c., by the Blessed One by religious discourse, said to the Blessed One: “Might the Blessed One, Lord, consent to take his meal with me to-morrow together with the fraternity of Bhikkhus.'
The Blessed One expressed his consent by remaining silent.
Then the courtezan Ambapâli, when she understood that the Blessed One had accepted her invitation, rose from her seat, respectfully saluted the Blessed One, and, passing round him with her right side towards him, went away.
3. Now the Likkhavis of Vesåli heard that the Blessed One had arrived at Kotigama. And the Likkhavis of Vesali ordered a number of magnificent vehicles to be made ready, mounted these vehicles, and left Vesali with their magnificent vehicles in order to visit the Blessed One. Some of the Likkhavis were dark, dark in colour, and wearing dark clothes and ornaments; some of them were fair, fair in colour, and wearing light clothes and ornaments; some of them were red, ruddy in colour, and wearing red clothes and ornaments; some of them were white, pale in colour, and wearing white colours and ornaments. And the courtezan Ambapali drove up against the young
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