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A. CHAKRAVARTI :
Reverend Sir.' 'You have asked many questions; I will ask you just one; will you answer me ?.' 'Ask your question'. 'What is one ? She said to herself, “This is the question I should be able to answer'; but not knowing the answer, she inquired of the Elder, ‘What is it, Reverend Sir ?.' 'This is the Buddha's question, Sister.' 'Tell me also the answer, Reverend Sir.' 'If you will enter our Order, I will tell you the answer.' 'Very well, admit me to the Order.' The Elder sent word to the nuns and had her admitted. After being admitted to the Order, she made her full profession, took the name Kundalakēśī, and after a few days became an Arhat endowed with supernatural faculties.
In the Hall of Truth the monks began a discussion of the incident. “Kundalakēśī heard little of the Law, and yet she succeeded in being admitted to the Order ; moreover, she came here after fighting a fierce battle with a robber and defeating him.' The teacher came in and asked them, ‘Monks, what is it that you are sitting here discussing now?.' They told him. “Monks, we assure not the Law. I have taught as being 'little' or 'much. There is no superior merit in a hundred sentences that are meaningless; but one sentence of the Law is better. He that defeats all other robbers wins no victory at all, but he who defeats the robbers, his own depravities, his is victory indeed.” There he joined the connection and preaching the Law, pronounced the following stanza :
Though one should recite a hundred stanzas Composed of meaningless sentences
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