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putra on his arrival home, (rested) with joyful face and full of peace. 1399
His friend the honoured Mugalin (Maudgalyayana), equally renowned for learning, seeing Sariputra in the distance ?, his pleasing air and lightsome step, 1400
Spoke thus: 'As I now see thee, there is an unusual look I notice, your former nature seems quite changed, the signs of happiness I now observe, 1401
‘All indicate the possession of eternal truth, these marks are not uncaused.' Answering he said: “The words of the Tathagata are such as never yet were spoken ;' 1402
And then, requested, he declared (what he had heard). Hearing the words and understanding them, he too put off the world's defilement, and gained the eyes of true religion, 1403
The reward of a long-planted virtuous cause; and, as one sees by a lamp that comes to hand, so he obtained an unmoved faith in Buddha ; and now they both set out for Buddha's presence, 1404
With a large crowd of followers, two hundred men and fifty. Buddha seeing the two worthies : coming, spoke thus to his disciples: 1405
These two men who come shall be my two most eminent followers, one unsurpassed for wisdom, the other for powers miraculous ;' 1406
And then with Brahma's voice 3, profound and
1 Then the paribbâgaka Sariputta went to the place where the paribbâgaka Moggallâna was,' Sacred Books of the East, vol. xiii, p. 147
2 The two 'bhadras,' i. e. 'sages,' or 'virtuous ones.'
• Or, with 'Brahma-voice' (Brahmaghosha), for which, see Childers sub voce.
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