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ARDHA-MAGADBE READER born blind, “Verily, 0 beloved of the gods! the blessed Samana Mahávíra has arrived here. People are going to greet and bow down to him.”
6. Theu that person born blind said to the man having eyes, " Let us go, O beloved of the gods. We, too, shall greet and bow down to the blessed Samana Mahávíra and wait upon him.
7. Then that person born blind, being led forward with a stick by the man having eyes, came to where the bleskod Samana Mahávíra was. Coming there he walked round him thrice from right to right,' grected and bowed before him (down to) stood waiting upon him.
8. Then the blessed Samana Mahávíra preached his religion to that great congregation. The congregation went back in the direction from which it had appeared.
9. Then the blessed Samaşa Mahávíra's eldest disciple named Indabhúi, 2 the monk, seeing that person boru blind, greeted and bowed before the blessed Samana Mahávíra and said, "Sir, Is there any person born blind or practically blind 3 from birth ?"
1. T'he circumambulation of revcronco. The faluting person walks thrice round the salutod, starting from the latter's right, and keeping his own right turned towards him. Barnett.
See Hoernle's note 17 in his translation of Uvásaga.
2. Skt. r ufo AA, Mahávírn's first Ganadhara popularly believed to be a Brahman,' really belonged to a Kshatriya gotra as is expressly stated by Abhayadeva in his commentary on the Tháņámga, VII gr.
3. T at the end of a compound often means 'almost! nearly.'
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