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first flung their hair, their braids, their provisions and sacrifice into the river and received ordination from the Blessed One. His brothers who lived by the river Niranjara and at Gaya soon followed the example. The conversions of the Kashyapas created a sensation and Gautama with his new disciples and 1000 followers walked towards Rajgriha, the capital of Magadha. News of the new prophet soon reached the king and Bimbisara surrounded by numbers of us and as went to visit Gautama. Seeing the distinguished Uruvela Kashyapa there, the king could not make out if that great Brahmin had converted Gautama or if Gautama had converted the Brahmin. Gautama understood king's perplexity and in order to enlighten him asked Kashyapa, "What knowledge have you gained, O inhabitant of Uruvela, that has induced you who were renowned for your penances, to forsake your sacred fire?" Kashyapa replied that he had seen the state of peace and took no more delight in sacrifices and offerings. The king was struck and pleased and with his numerous attendants declared himself an adherent of Gautama, and invited him to take his meal with him the next day.
The solitary wanderer accordingly went, an honoured guest, to the palace of the king, and the entire population of the capital of Magadha turned out to see him. The king then assigned a bamboo grove (aug) close by for the residence of Gautama and his followers and there Gautama rested for some time. Shortly after Gautama obtained two renowned converts, Sariputta and Moggallana.
The fame of Gautama had now travelled to his native town and his old father expressed a desire to see him once before he died. Gautama accordingly went
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