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strength of [their own] good (subha, with G), bad (asubha, with H) or mixed (subhâsubha, with AM) karmans.
santo, sao and sato probably have been mixed up. Abhay. seems to be puzzled; he comments only on sao which, however, he explains as santaḥ.-- bhante (454a, line 4 from the bottom and in the comm.) is superfluous; the old edition has bhe.
€ (455a) End of the episode: Gangeya's conversion, ref. to that of Kālāsa Vesiyaputta in I 95. **
33. KUŅDAGGĀMA. 1a (4560) The brahman Usabhadatta and his wife Devāṇandā honour Mv. in the sanctuary Bahusālaya near the brahmanical part of Kunda g gāma (Māhana-K.).
jāvas referring to the varnakas known from Uvav. etc. 15 (458a) Mv. declares to Goy. that Devāņandā is his real mother: Devānandā māhanī mama ammā, aham nam Devānandāe māhaņīe attae.
Cf. Lehre par. 17. 1c (458a) Usabhadatta's and Devāṇandā’s conversion, profession (Devāṇandā being entrusted to Ajja-Candaņā), spiritual career and final liberation; ref. to Khandaga's conversion in II 16b.
2a (461aThe young nobleman (khattiya-kumāra) Jamāli, who lives in the western or ksatriya part of Kundaggā ma, visits Mv. in the sanctuary Bahusālaya. He decides to become a monk.
jāva references to the varnakas known from Uvav. etc.-Cf. LEUMANN'S summary of the Jamāli episode in Ind. Stud. 17, p. 98 seqq. The whole account is identical with that found in Meha's story in Nāy. (STEINTHAL, par. 126-179).-From feelings of delicacy our text does not say that Jamāli's mother was Mv.'s elder sister Sudamsaņā, nor does it name his wife, Mv.'s daughter Aņojjā alias Piyadamsaņā.
26 (464a) He informs his parents of that decision. His parents ask him to delay the pavvajjā till after their death, because he is their only son, endowed with excellent qualities, possessing eight excellent wives and many riches, whereas monachal life is full
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