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1. "'I know many monks who have lived for 10 to 40 years and then come back to wordly life and plunged in worldly pleasures. But I have never seen a Buddhist monk indulging in such a behaviour. I have seen quarrelling parents and sons, kings and their vassals, but I have always found the Buddhist monks living in peace and amity. I have seen such monks who have become pale from disease, but I have never found a Buddhist monk like that. In the law courts, I have seen people indulging in incessant gossips, but in a gathering where the Buddha speaks, I have never seen anyone even coughing. Here nobody even asks a question as I have seen people doing in the congrega. tions around other spiritual leaders.
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"The Bhagavān is a Ksatriya and so am I, The Bhagavān is a resident of Kosala and so am I. The Bhagavān is 80, and I am also 80. So it is in the fitness of things that I show him respect and accord him diverse honours "(228).
Queen Mallikā was one of the principal consorts of Prasenajit. She was highly devoted to the Buddha. All the time she was exerting her influence on the king in favour of the Buddha, Vajirā who was married with Ajātas'atru was her daughter.
Vidūdabha
In order to augment his proximity to the Buddha, Pras enjait wanted to marry a princess from the Sākya clan. But the Sāk yas looked on him as being inferior to them in caste status and so they did not agree. But knowing him to be a powerful king, they dared not to disoblige him altogether. So they married with him one Vasayakhattiyā, daughter of Mahanama Sakya by a servant maid. To keep it a close secret, from Prasenajit Mahānāma sat to dine with this servant girl. But as he lifted his first morsel of food, as per a previous arrangement, an errandboy arrived with an urgent message, and, on the pretext of attending to it, he left the place in a hurry without touching any food. Prasenajit was under the impression all the time that he had married a Ksatriya woman of a distinguished family, and he gave the lady the position of the first queen. From this marriage, a son was born who was
