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hearing this, the cowherds applied strong bamboo leaves tightly to the cooking-dish and then they began to prepare the ricepudding. At that time, on account of a preponderance of ricegrains, the cooking-dish broke down in a moment. The cowherds ate as much as they could collect, and at last they licked the milk from the broken pieces of the cooking-dish. Gośāla stood bewildered like a cat in a sweet-meat shop, and he began to be more and more convinced about niyati-vada-a doctrine of Fate-whatever is destined to happen at any partinular moment, must necessarily happen. It cannot be otherwise.
Brāhmaṇa-grāma.
Śramaṇa Bhagavān Mahāvīra went to
The village was divided into two part. One portion of the village was ruled by Nanda and the other was ruled by his brother Upa-nanda. Śramana Bhagavān Mahāvîra went for breakfast at the end of a two-day's fasting to a house in Nanda diviston. There he was served with fragrant excellent rice mixed with curds.
Gośāla went into the other portion of the village and on seeing a lofty palatial building, he entered the house of Upananda, Upananda ordered a maid-servant to give him alms. The maidservant brought some dressed rice as alms for him. Undesirous of such alms Gośāla insultingly told Upananda, "Ah! you collect all the taxes of the village and you do not give any. thing to the king You enjoy all the pleasures of this life and you do sinful acts uninterruptedly Besides, why are you not ashamed of giving dressed rice to an ascetic like myself who has accidentally come to your house?" On hearing this, Upananda angrily ordered his maid servant. O good woman! you throw all this rice on the head of this mendicant ". The maid- servant did exactly what she was ordered to do. Becoming greatly enraged, Gośāla with highly distorted fearful eye-brows but unable to do any other mischief there, stood at the door of the house and said,
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If there he any superphysical powers in the austerities of my religious preceptor, let the house of this wicked person be con. sumed to ashes, Vāṇa-vyantara gods created fire and his house was burnt away
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