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were face to face, this universe, the world with its Devas, and with its Brahmas, and with its Māras, and all creatures, Samanas and Brahmanas, gods and men: and he then makes that knowledge known to others. The truth doth he make known, both in the spirit and in the letter: lovely in its origin, lovely in its progress, lovely in its consummation. The higher life doth he proclaim, in all its purity and all its perfectness. Blessed is the sight of Arahats like that.'
12. Then Mendaka the householder had a number of splendid carriages made ready, and mounting one of them he set out from Bhaddiya with the train of splendid carriages to visit the Blessed One.
And many Titthiyas saw Mendaka the householder as he was coming from afar; and when they had seen him, they said to Mendaka the householder:
Whither, O householder, are you going ?'
I am going, Sirs, to visit the Blessed One, the Samana Gotama.'
But why, O householder, do you, being a Kiriya-vâda, go out to visit the Blessed One who is an Akiriya-vada ? For, O householder, the Samana Gotama, who is an Akiriya-vâda, teaches Dhamma without the doctrine of action', and in this Dhamma he instructs his hearers.'
13. Then thought Mendaka the householder : For a certainty that Blessed One must be an Arahat Buddha : since these Titthiyas are so jealous of him.' And he went on to the place where the Blessed One was, proceeding in the carriage as far
See above, VI, 31, 5.
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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 |