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2. Prince Meha.
1. In those days, at that time, there was a city named Campá'. (Its description) Outside this city of Campá, and in the north-eastern direction, there was a sanctuary named Punnabhadda. (Its description). In the city of Campá,there was the king, named Koniya. (His description).
2. In those days, at that time, the reverend Elder Suhamma, a disciple of the blessed Samana Mahávíra's, surrounded by five hundred monks, travelling on and on, passing from village to village, and journeying in pleasantness, arrived at the sanctuary Punnabhadda in the city of Campá, and taking a proper abode3, stayed there purifying himself with restraint and penance. (The congregation went out of the city Campá. Religion was preached. The congregation went in the direction from which it had come).
3. In those days, at that time, the reverend Suhamma's senior disciple, the reverend Jambú, the monk, belonging to the Kásava family, seated some little way from the reverend Elder Suhamma, with his knees raised and his head bent down, lodged in a store-chamber of meditation, was purifying himself with restraint and penance.
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Campá now represented by the village of Campapur, on the Ganges, near Bhagalpur, was the capital of the country of Anga.
2. Ajátasatru of the Puránas.
3. Oggaha Skt. avagraha means a friar's taking permission from the owner of a house to stay there,
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