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too flowing and not stagnant, that too given and not ungiven; that too for the sake of washing hands, feet, spoons or ladles and not for drinking or bathing.
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13. These ascetics following on this path pass a course of many years. After passing the course of many years and dying in the death-month, they are re-born as gods in the Bambhaloya region. There is their course, and their stay there has been preached as ten Ságarovama. The rest is the same.
14. In those days, at that time, in the time of the summer season, in the month of Jyeshthá, seven hundred disciples of Ambada, the Ascetic, set out along either bank of the great river Gangá, on a journey from the city of Kampillapura to the city of Puritamála.
15. Then these ascetics who had entered somc unknown foreign country in that vast desert having no villages or means to come out ran short of the water which they had previously taken being consumed gradually.
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16 Then those asceties, running short of water, wandering about through thirst and not finding any giver of water addressed one another and said, Truly, beloved of the Gods, the water, taken previously by us who have reached some unknown foreign country in this villageless desert has been consumed. It is better for us us, therefore O beloved of the Gods, to make a search in all directions for a giver of water in this villageless desert." With these words they promised each other to do so, and made a search in all directions for a giver of water in
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