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green gram, and pea. He renounced ghi except that from cows' milk produced in the autumn; and he gave up vegetables except svastika,180 pumpkin, and cucumber.
He gave up dressings except oil and vinegar and pulse and vinegar; and water except rain water; and mouth-perfumes except pan with five spices.
Then Ananda went joyfully to Śivananda and told her that the complete layman's dharma had been accepted. Śivanandā happily got into a carriage immediately and went to the Blessed One, seeking the layman's dharma. After bowing at the feet of the Teacher of the Three Worlds there, Śivanandā devoutly accepted the layman's dharma. Then she got into the carriage that was splendid as a heavenly aerial car and went home, delighted with the nectar-drink of the Blessed One's speech.
Then Gautama bowed to the Omniscient and asked, "Will this high-minded Ananda take the ascetic-vow?" The Blessed One, omniscient, said: "For a long time Ananda will observe the layman's vows. Then he will become the chief-god, with a life-duration of four palyas, in the palace Aruṇaprabha in the heaven Saudharma.
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Story of Kamadeva (265-275)
Now there is a large city Campă resplendent with banners on shrines, like beautiful rows of hansas on the Jahnavi. Its king was named Jitaśatru, whose arm-pillars were as long as a serpent's body, who was a temple of Sri. There was in this city a householder, named Kamadeva, wise, a refuge of many persons like a large tree on a road. He had a wife, named Bhadra, with a fair form, endowed with beauty and grace, like beauty that had become immobilized. He had six crores of gold in deposit, six out at interest, and six engaged in business, and he had six herds of ten thousand cattle each. At that time Śri Vira, as he wandered over the earth,
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A kind of vegetable. PH, s.v. sotthia.
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