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"The Exalted One was once staying among the Sakkas, in the palace of the Sakkas in the Mango Grove called Vedhanna.
"At that time, Nigantha Nataputta had just departed from life in Păvă. After his death, the Niganthas (i. e, the Jains) were divided into two groups. They making quarrels, making strifes, were wounding each other with the weapons of the tongue and were saying to each other: 'You do not know this law......... unfit to be stayed in'.
'at that time Cunda Samanuddesa, after having passed ............. unfit to be stayed in'.
"Thereupon the venerable Ananda....... to the Lord!
"Yes, reverend, sir!'
"Then, the venerable Ananda ......... unfit to be stayed in".
"Then the Lord said to Cunda: 'Cunda, the religion (i.e. doctrines) of the order in which the master is not perfectly enlightened one is not well-meaning.........
"Therefore, Cunda, the religion which has been preached by me after having attained the enlightenment, should be understood well by all of you unitedly and undisputedly".
3. "(140) Thus have I heard:
"The Exalted One while making a tour among the Mallas together with the large order of monks, numb five hundred, arrived at Pāvā, a town of Mallas. He was staying there fat Paya in Mango Grove of Cunda, the son of the silversmith,
"At that time, the new and lofty assembly-house (Samsthagara) of the Mallas the natives of Pāvā, was just built and no recluse (Sramana) or Brahmana or man had so far lived in it. The Mallas, the natives of Pāvā, heard - 'The Lord has arrived at Pāvá, while making tour among the Mallas, and the Lord is nou staying in the
