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pleasant. Owing to the rains the S'ákyas could not betake to outdoor sports, and so they ontertained themselves within their houses,
20. Grove of penance, p. 108. Men, when tired of life, retire to a grove to pass the remainder of their lives in austerity and divine contenuplation, and S'uddhodana, like them, rotired for the time from worldliness, to remain pure. Brahmacharya is contincuce, such as Vcdic students are required to adopt. S'uduhodaus observed the rules of continenco.
21. Then he adilressed the l'enerable Ananila, p. 108. Tbe w of the dialogue between the Lorl und Ananıla, which was broken by the narrative of the miraculous Lassinet, is now taken up t. keep up the continuity of the life as narrated by the Lord to his congregation.
22. Transformation of the six, p. 109. I suppose the five elentents and Prakriti are meant by tho sis : but I am not sure.
