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country of Gandhâra he converted the Naga A palála?; 1711
Thus in due order all these air-going, waterloving natures he completely converted and saved, as the sun when he shines upon some dark and sombre cave. 1712
At this time Devadatta?, seeing the remarkable excellences of Buddha, conceived in his heart a jealous hatred ; losing all power of thoughtful abstraction, 1713
He ever plotted wicked schemes, to put a stop to the spread of the true law; ascending the Gridhrakūta (Ghiggakuta) mount he rolled down a stone to hit Buddha s; 1714
The stone divided into two parts, each part passing on either side of him. Again, on the royal highway he loosed a drunken, vicious elephant"; 1715
With his raised trunk trumpeting as thunder (he ran), his maddened breath raising a cloud around him, his wild pace like the rushing wind, to be avoided more than the fierce tempest; 1716
His trunk and tusks and tail and feet, when touched only, brought instant death. (Thus he ran) through the streets and ways of Râgagriha, madly wounding and killing men; 1717
Their corpses lay across the road, their brains
1 For the conversion of Apalála, see Jul. II, 135.
• Devadatta, the envious; he was the son of Suprabuddha, the father-in-law of Buddha, M. B., p. 61.
* This event is related by Fă-hien, cap. xxix, p. 115 (Buddhist Pilgrims). Få-hien says, 'The stone is still there,' but he does not say that it was divided. See also M. B., p. 383, where the account somewhat differs.
. This story of the drunken elephant is related in nearly all the lives of Buddha.' The sculptures at Amaravati and Barahut also include this episode. See also F-hien, p. 113
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