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MAHÂVAGGA.
VI, 36, 3.
by my clansmen that even I went forth to welcome the Blessed One.'
Then the venerable Ånanda was filled with sorrow, thinking, 'How can Roga the Malla speak thus ?'
3. And the venerable Ananda went up to the place where the Blessed One was: and when he had come there, he saluted the Blessed One, and took his seat on one side, and so sitting the venerable Ananda spake to the Blessed One thus:
•This Roga the Malla, Lord, is a very distinguished and well-known person. Great would be the efficacy of the adherence given by wellknown persons like him to this doctrine and discipline. May the Blessed One be pleased so to act, that Roga the Malla shall become devoted to this doctrine and discipline.
Now that, Ånanda, is not a hard thing for the Tathagata-so to act that Roga the Malla should become devoted to this doctrine and discipline.'
4. Then the Blessed One suffused Roga the Malla with the feeling of his love, and rising from his seat he entered into his dwelling-place. And Roga the Malla, overcome by the Blessed One by the sense of his love, just as a young calf follows the kine, so did he go on from dwelling-place to dwelling-place, and from apartment to apartment, asking the Bhikkhus:
Where then, Sirs, is that Blessed One dwelling now, the Arahat Buddha ? For we desire to visit that Blessed One, the Arahat Buddha.'
* Mahiddhiyo, where, as so often elsewhere, Iddhi has no supernatural connotation. Compare the passages quoted above in our note on I, 15, 2.
* Compare Rh. D., Buddhist Birth Stories,' p. 112.
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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 |