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KULLAVAGGA.
VII, 1, 1.
SEVENTH KHANDHAKA.
DISSENSIONS İN THE ORDER.
1. Now at that time the Blessed One was staying at Anupiya ?. Anupiya is a town belonging to the Mallas 3. Now at that time the most distinguished of the young men of the Sakya clan had renounced the world in imitation of the Blessed One.
Now there were two brothers, Mahânâma the Säkyan, and 'Anuruddha the Sâkyan. Anuruddha the Sâkyan was delicately nurtured ; and he had three storeyed residences, one for the cold season, one for the hot season, and one for the season of the rains 4. During the four months spent in the
1 With the whole of the following story compare the, in many respects, fuller account given by the commentator on the Dhammapada (Fausböll, pp. 139 and following)..
* This was the spot where Gotama spent the first week after his renunciation of the world, before he went on to Rågagaha (Rh. D.'s
Buddhist Birth Stories,' I, 87). Professor Fausböll there (Gataka I, 65) reads Anû piyam, but all his MSS. have the ŭ short. It is noteworthy that in our text the locative is formed as if the word were feminine, though the neuter form is used for the nominative.
The more usual mode of adding this description in similar passages at the commencement of all the Suttas would lead us to expect here Mallâ nam nigame.
• Compare Mahâvagga I, 7, 1, where the same thing is said of Yasa.
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