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5?. Now at that time the venerable Bhaddiya, who had retired into the forest to the foot of a tree, into solitude, gave utterance over and over again to this ecstatic exclamation : 'O happiness! O happiness !' And a number of Bhikkhus went up to the place where the Blessed One was, and bowed down before him, and took their seats on one side. And, so seated, they (told the Blessed One of this), and added, 'For a certainty, Lord, the venerable Bhaddiya is not contented as he lives the life of purity; but rather it is when calling to mind the happiness of his former sovranty that he gives vent to this saying.'
Then the Blessed One addressed a certain Bhikkhu, and said: 'Do you go, O Bhikkhu, and in my name call Bhaddiya the Bhikkhu, saying, “The Teacher, venerable Bhaddiya, is calling for you."
'Even so, Lord,' said that Bhikkhu, in assent to the Blessed One. And he went to Bhaddiya, and called him [in those words].
6. Very well,' said the venerable Bhaddiya, in
translated by Rh. D. in Buddhist Suttas from the Påli,' S. B. E., vol. xi, p. 214, and the fourfold Iddhi of the ideal king in the similar passage, loc. cit., pp. 259-261. The Iddhi here referred to may be the former of these two, though that list does not include the power ascribed to Devadatta in the next chapter. At Gataka I, 140, the expression of our text here is replaced by gha na, though the account there is otherwise the same.
It is worthy of notice that Devadatta, though a Bhikkhu, is not honoured with the standing epithet, venerable,' always used of the other members of the Order, even when they are represented to have been of bad character.
The following incident, with a summary of the preceding sections, forms the introductory story to the roth Gâlaka (Rh. D.'s . Buddhist Birth Stories,' i. pp. 190-193). The legend may have first arisen as an explanation of the name Bhaddiya, which means the fortunate one.'
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