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SÚTRAKRITÂNGA.
direction, there was the suburb Nâlandâ ; it contained many hundreds of buildings, &c.? (1)
In that suburb Nâlandâ there was a householder called Lepa ; he was prosperous, famous; rich in high and large houses, beds, seats, vehicles, and chariots; abounding in riches, gold, and silver ; possessed of useful and necessary things ; wasting plenty of food and drink; owning many male and female slaves, cows, buffaloes, and sheep; and inferior to nobody. (2)
This householder Lêpa, a follower of the Sramanas, comprehended (the doctrine of) living beings and things without life, (&c., all as in II, 2, 76, p. 382, down to the end of the paragraph). (3)
This householder Lêpa possessed, in a northeastern direction from the suburb Nâlandâ, a bathing-hall, called Seshadravyâ 2; it contained many hundreds of pillars, was beautiful, &c. In a northeastern direction from this bathing-hall Sêshadravyâ, there was a park called Hastiyâma. (Description of the park 3.) (4)
And there in some house the Venerable Gautama was staying. The venerable (man) was in the garden, and so was Udaka, the son of Pêdhâla, a Nirgrantha and follower of Pârsva 4, of the Mêdarya Gôtra. He went there where the Venerable Gautama was, and said: 'O long-lived Gautama, I want to ask you about a point (of faith); O long-lived one,
? I cannot tell where the full description occurs.
2 The name denotes: the rest of materials, i.e. the hall which was built with the materials not used in building the house), the well-known 'few remaining bricks.
& The text is given in the Aupapâtika Sûtra, $ 3. 4 Compare the Twenty-second Lecture of the Uttaradhyayana.
