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BIMBISÂRA RÂGA BECOMES A DISCIPLE.
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the streams of birth and death, and practising pure conduct, 1330
'All is done that should be done, and hereafter shall be no more life (bhava).' Thus the thousand Bhikshus hearing the world-honoured preach, 1331 · All defects for ever done away, their minds found perfect and complete deliverance. Then Buddha for the Kasyapas' sakes, and for the benefit of the thousand Bhikshus, having preached, 1332
And done all that should be done, himself with purity and wisdom and all the concourse of high qualities excellently adorned, he gave them, as in charity, rules for cleansing sense. 1333
The great Rishi, listening to reason, lost all regard for bodily austerities, and, as a man without a guide, was emptied of himself, and learned discipleship. 1334
And now the honoured one and all his followers go forward to the royal city ? (Râgagriha), remembering, as he did, the Magadha king, and what he heretofore had promised. 1335.
The honoured one when he arrived, remained within the staff grove 3 ;' Bimbisåra Râga hearing thereof, with all his company of courtiers, 1336
Lords and ladies all surrounding him, came to where the master was. Then at a distance seeing Buddha seated, with humbled heart and subdued presence, 1337
Putting off his common ornaments, descending from his chariot, forward he stepped; even as
1 The Âstavas. . So also in the Páli. • The 'Kang lin,' called in Sanskrit Yashtivana.
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