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CHAPTER THREE The Master went to Campā for the third rainy season and stopped there, with two two-month fasts proposed. By means of kāyotsarga and various postures—the squatting-posture, et cetera, the Master remained completely absorbed in concentrated meditation, as if he were emancipated even in this world. After he had made his second fast-breaking of a twomonth fast outside the city, the Master went with Gośāla to the hamlet Kollāka.
There the Lord stood in statuesque posture in an empty house through the night; but Gośāla stood cowering in the door, trembling like a monkey. Then the son of the villagechief, Sinha, recently grown up, came there with the intention of amusing himself with a slave-girl, Vidyunmati. He called aloud, “ If any one is here, ascetic, Brāhman, or traveler, let him speak up, that we may go elsewhere.” The Master remained silent at that time because he was engaged in kāyotsarga; but Gośāla, hearing that, did not answer from deceitfulness.
As he received no answer, Sinha dallied with her for a long time; and, having stopped suddenly, started to leave the house. Gośāla, malicious by nature, irresponsible, standing in the door, touched the slave-girl, Vidyunmati, as she was leaving. “Master, some one touched me,” she said aloud. Sinha, angry, turned, seized Gośāla, and said: “Wretch, you remained hidden by trickery and watched our misconduct. Even when you were spoken to, you did not answer then.” So saying, Sinha beat him and went to his own house. Gośāla said to the Master, “I am beaten while you look on Siddhārtha said: “Why do you not observe good behaviour like us? Are you not beaten because you show lack of consideration, staying in a door like this?”
The Master left and went to the village named Patrakāla. As before he stood in statuesque posture in an empty house during the night. Cowering from fear, Gośāla stayed in a corner in that house. Skanda, the son of the village-chief, came to sport with a slave-girl Dantilā. Like Sinha, he called out and no one answered. After he had amused himself,
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