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"Pūrṇa, my dear child! What lovely tidings you have broken before me! From this day, I shall look on you as my own eldest daughter. You dwell with me like my own child".
So saying, she gave her many gifts of clothes and ornaments. Then she poured khir on a golden saucer, covered it carefully with another similar saucer, and securely tied the whole thing in a piece of cloth. Then she herself wore dress and ornaments suitable for the occasion of worshipping god. After he had been ready, she placed the golden saucers on her head and came beneath the tree. she saw the Buddha there, she became immensely happy. She thought that this was the deity of the tree.
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Sujata stood at the place wherefrom she had first seen the Buddha. Then she plucked down the saucers from her head, took the one containing khir in one hand, took a jar of scented water in the other, and stood before the Buddha. The earthen bowl which was provided to the Buddha by Ghatikar Brahma, and which was with him upto this time disappeared at this moment, When the Buddha did not find the bowl near him, he extended his right hand and accepted the jar of water. Sujātā then placed the saucer containing khir in his other hand. The Buddha looked at Sujātā. Sujātā understood his mind. She said,
"Arya!
I offer this to you. Be pleased to accept it and thereafter repair wherever thy convenience suits thee".
Then Sujātā bowed before him and said,
"As my heart's desire has been fulfilled, so, may your desire be fulfilled as well".
As one discards a used leaf-plate, so Sujata did not care for her golden saucer worth a lakh. She left it there and departed from that place.
The Buddha stood up from that place. He moved round the tree and came to the bank of the Niranjana. He placed the saucer containing khir on the river bank. went inside the water, took his bath and came out, and he sat facing towards the east. It was this food that sustained him for 49
