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XII, 2, 6.
ON THE COUNCIL OF VESALI.
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Even long ago, Sir, when I was a layman, was much love laid up in my heart, therefore is it that now also I live much in the sense of love, and indeed since long I have attained to Arahatship. And by what manner of life have you lived now these many years ?'
' By continuing in the sense of the emptiness (of worldly things) have I, beloved one, lived these many years.'
"They say that you, honoured friend, have continued thus by the sense of being a man born to greatness"; and that indeed, honoured friend, is the same feeling, (I mean) the sense of the emptiness of things.'
Even long ago, beloved one, when I was a layman, had I a strong sense of the emptiness of things, therefore is it that now also I live much in that feeling, and indeed since long I have attained to Arahatship.'
6. Now? this conversation between the Thera Bhikkhus was still unfinished when the venerable Sambhàta Sanavåsi arrived there. And he went up to the venerable Sabbakâmi, and saluted him, and took his seat beside him. And, so seated, he said to the venerable Sabbakâmi:
These Vaggian Bhikkhus of Vesâlt have put forth in Vesall these ten points ;' and he told them all 3. •Now you, O Thera, have mastered much Dhamma and Vinaya at the feet of your preceptor.
1 Mahâ purisa. On the subsequent history of which word, see Senart's Légende du Buddha,' pp. 54, 107.
Karahi. Compare Book of the Great Decease,' III, 53 ; Childers, p. 32.
: The text repeats XII, 1, 1.
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