Text of Confucianism Part 02

SR No.: 007676
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: James Legge
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1882
Total Pages: 2405
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 43 MB

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IV, 22.
Then all the people on the bank of the river, with one voice, raised a rapturous shout', and all declared this ford should be called the Gautama ford. 1745
As the city gate is called the Gautama gate, so this Gautama ford is so known through ages; and shall be so called through generations to come S. 1746
Then Tathagata, going forward still, came to that celebrated Kulis village, where he preached and converted many; again he went on to the Nâdi * village, 1747
Where many deaths had occurred among the people. The friends of the dead then came to the lord) and asked, 'Where have our friends and relatives deceased, now gone to be born, after this life ended ?' 1748
Buddha, knowing well the sequence of deeds, answered each according to his several case. Then going forward to Vaisâlio, he located himself in the Amra grove? 1749
The celebrated Lady Âmrâ, well affected to Buddha, went to that garden followed by her waiting
1 Or rather shouted out, "miraculous !")
? Is there any name corresponding to the 'Gautama' ford known near Patna?
* No doubt the same as Kofigâma (op. cit., p. 23) called Kantikama by Bigandet, p. 259.
• Come, Ânanda, let us go to the villages of Nadika,' Rhys Davids, p. 24.
6 The names of the dead are given in the Pali; the account here is evidently an abstract only.
o 'Come, Ananda, let us go on to Vesâli,' Rh. D., p. 28.
7 And there at Vesali the Blessed One stayed at Ambapâli's grove,' Rh. D., p. 28.
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