Agama And Tripitaka Comparative Study

SR No.: 022804
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Nagaraj Muni
Publisher: Today and Tomorrows Printers and Publishers
Publication Year: 1986
Total Pages: 804
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 19 MB

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is at the close of his life; Lord, let the Lord now be content to live devoted to abiding in ease here and now, let him hand over the order of monks to me. It is I who will lead the order of monks".
"Enough, Devadatta, please do not lead the order of monks. And a second time.......... And a third time Devadatta spoke thus to the Lord: "Lord the Lord is now old, worn, stricken in years......... It is I who will lead the order of monks.
"I, Devadatta, would not hand over the order of monks even to Sariputta and Moggallana. How then could I to you, a wretched one to be vomited like spittle?
Then Devaddata, thinking: 'The Lord in an assembly which included a king disparaged me by (using) the term, 'one to be vomited like spittle', while he extolled Sariputta and Moggallana, angry, displeased, having greeted the Lord, departed keeping his right side towards him.
"And this was the first time that Devadatta felt malice towards the Lord".
"Then Devadatta approached Prince Ajātas atru; having approached, he spoke thus to prince, Ajātas atru "Formerly prince, people were long-lived, now-a-days they are shortlived, and it is possible that you, while still a prince, might pass away. Well now, do you, prince, having slain your father, become king. I having slain the Lord, will become the Awakened One. And Prince Ajatasatru, thinking: Now, master Devadatta is of great psychic power, of great majesty; master Devadatta must know (what is right), having fastened a dagger against his thigh, at an entered the (King's) private quarters forcibly. But the chief ministers in attendance in the private quarters saw him. Seeing him, they caught hold of him. They examined him and having seen the dagger bound against his thigh, spoke thus to Prince Ajátasatru: What is it that you, prince, want to do?
"I want to slay my father".
"By whom are you being incited"?