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BUDDHIST INDIA
About the same time Bimbisāra, the King, handed over the reins of government to the Prince. But it
FIG. 2.-AJĀTASATTU STARTING OUT TO VISIT THE BUDDHA.
was not long before Devadatta incited him, in order to make quite sure, to slay the King. And Ajāta. sattu carried out this idea in the eighth year before
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