________________
CHAPTER 24 semasat pzectpice; full of dangers, quarrels, fanits and videos Known as such they are avoided by the wina, condemned him the learned, censured by the respostable, shunned by the wensible accepted by the senseless, and induk in by the ignorant."
At that time this Gátha stanza was recited :
"To be shunned by the sensible as the head of a serpent; con demnable as an impure pot of urine; knowing sensuous desire to be the destroyers of all (true) enjoyment, Chhaudaka, I feel no sympathy for them"
Then Chbandaka, like one pierced with a dart, crying with ten'ful eyes, Cull of sorrow, thus remarked :
"Lord, for that for which sorge undergo manifoll und rigorous fasts, havo hairy skin, matted hair, long hair, long wails, long beard, and beggar's garb; or, wearing burk, many with onunciated body betake to l'asts, live upon herbs, coarse grains, nottles
Ovidea verticellout), holding their benda upwarus, obsorve the penance of the cowl (1)
"Cherishing the hope we shall bereby be the noblost, the pre-eminent, in this world, the highest emperors, the guardiaus of quarters, or Sakra, lhe wielder of the thunderbolt, or Yama, or the lords of the Devas, or of the Nirmitas, or dwell in the region of Brahma, the deviser of the felicity of ioditation (2)
"All that, tbou, the noblest of men, bant at thy command. lby kingdom is vast, rich, prosperous; thy gariluns and pleasure-grouuds and palacos are lofty as the Vaijayanta (palace of Indra). Thy female apartmonts are resouuding with the sounds of the flute and the lute, with sougs and music, with dancing and concerts, in well-trained harmony ;-cnjoy these desirable objects, and depart not, I thou compassionato lord !”
The Bodhisattva said:
“Chbandaka, listen; hundreds of sufferings have been endured oy, me in my former existences --Cetters, imprisonmenta, beat ogrs, reusees, ---for sensuous objects, but they have not produced peace of mind. (1)
