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CHAPTER EIGHT Then, when the assembly had dispersed, bowing to the Lord's feet, Culanipits, reverent, announced: “ Master, you wandered over the earth for the sake of enlightening people like us. There is no other purpose in the movement of the sun except the waking of the world. Everyone, when he has come, is asked (for something ). Perhaps he gives or does not give. You have come and, unasked, give dharma. Compassion is your reason for this. I know if I take the ascetic-vows in the Master's presence, later there would not be so much suitability on my part, unfortunate that I am. But I ask for layman's vows. Master, be gracious to me. Give them to me. Even an oil-vessel takes its own load, no more, on the ocean. Given permission by the Master, “ Take as you like,” he professed the twelvefold vows suitable for laymen. He renounced gold except the eight crores in each of the threedeposit, et cetera; and other herds than the eight herds. Like Kāmadeva he set restrictions on other objects. His wife Syāma also took the lay-vows in the Master's presence.
At that time Gautama bowed and asked the Lord of the World: “Will this Culanīpitp take the great vows (of an ascetic ) or not?” The Master said: “He will not take the ascetics' vows, but devoted to lay-vows, he will go to Saudharma after death with a life-duration of four palyas in the palace Aruņābha. After falling from there and being born in the Videhas, he will reach emancipation."
Surādeva ( 297-298)
In the same place there were a householder Surādeva and his wife Dhanyā. His gold, et cetera were equal in quantity to Kāmadeva's. Like Kāmadeva he went and took the layvows and restrictions before the Master together with Dhanyā rich in dharma.
Cullašatika ( 300-301 ) Then in his wandering the Master went to the city
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