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Then, some other time, this Friar Dhanna, at mid-might had a religious vigil... and had thought [4] of such a sort.
"Thus indeed, I, by this noble [etc...] (mortification)..." The pondering as in the case of Khanda-a; leave-taking; clomb the Viula with the Elders; month's fasts; the period nine months; [until] coming to death, in the death-month, he was reborn as a god in the mansion of Savvatthasiddha,— having gone far upwards beyond the series of nine Gevejja Mansions...upwards beyond Chandima [etc.]...
"How long there, sir, the existence of Dhanna ordained? >>
His existence, Goyama, is ordained there for thirty-three Sagarovama periods."
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Whither, shall he, sir go from that celestial world?"
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"Goyama, he will be beatified in the land of Mahāvideha."
Thus, indeed, Jambu, this is the matter of the first lesson preached by the Ascetic [until] attained."
The first lesson ends.
