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KULLAVAGGA.
VI, 4, 4.
These are not worth, O householder, the sixteenth portion of one single stride.
'Go on, go on, O householder! Advance, and not retreat, shall profit thee.'
Then the darkness disappeared before Anatha Pindika the householder, and a bright light arose, and the fear and trembling and consternation that had sprung upon within him were appeased.
[And a second and a third time the same thing happened, and the same words were heard, and with the same result.]
4. And Anâtha Pindika the householder arrived at the Sitavana ; and at that time the Blessed One, who had arisen at early dawn, was walking up and down (meditating) in the open air. And the Blessed One saw Anatha Pindika the householder when he was coming from afar; and the Blessed One left the place where he had been walking up and down, and sat himself down on the seat put out for him. And when he was so seated, he addressed Anâtha Pindika the householder, and said:
Come hither, Sudatta !'
Then Anâtha Pindika, glad and happy at the thought that the Blessed One had addressed him by his name, went up to the place where the Blessed One was, and bowed down before him, falling at his feet, and said :
'I trust my lord the Blessed One has slept in peace !
"He ever sleeps in peace, the Arahat who is free,
* Brahmano parinibbuto. To translate the first of these words by Brahman' would mislead English readers. It is constantly used in early Buddhist texts for Arahat. On the use of
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