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LECTURE XII.
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Once on his begging tour, he approached the enclosure of a Brahmanical sacrifice. (3)
When (the priests) saw him coming up, emaciated by austerities, in a miserable condition, and with the poorest outfit, they laughed at him, the ruffians. (4)
Stuck up by pride of birth, those killers of animals, who did not subdue their senses, the unchaste sinners, made the following speech : (5)
Who is that dandy coming there ? he is swarthy, dreadful, with a turned-up nose, miserably clad, a very devil? of a dirty man, with a filthy cloth put on his neck? (6)
Who are you, you monster? or for what purpose have you come here ? you miserably clad devil of a dirty man! go, get away! why stand you there ?' (7)
At this turn the Yaksha, who lived in the Tinduka-tree, had compassion on the great sage, and making his own body invisible spoke the following words : (8)
"I am a chaste Sramana, controlling myself ; I have no property, nothing belonging to me, and do not cook my food; I have come for food which is dressed for somebody else at the time when I call. (9)
“You give away, eat, and consume plenty of food; know that I subsist by begging; let the mendicant get what is left of the rest.” (10)
The dinner has been prepared for Brâhmanas, it has been got ready especially for ourselves and for
· Pisâka. A full description of a Pisâka is given in the Uvâsaga Dasão, $ 94 of Hoernle's edition.
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