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MAHÂVAGGA.
VI, 34, 10.
holder sat down beside one four-bushel basket, and provided the fourfold host with six months' rice. And so long as she did not get up, it was not exhausted.
I have seen, 0 householder, the miraculous power of your daughter-in-law. Let us see that of your slave.
“The miraculous power of my slave, Sir, must be seen in the field.'
'It is enough, O householder. I have seen the miraculous power of your slave.'
Then that minister returned again to Râgagaha with his fourfold host, and went to the place where the Mågadha king Seniya Bimbisâra was, and when he had come there he told the matter to the Magadha king Seniya Bimbisâra.
10. Now the Blessed One, when he had remained at Vesali as long as he thought fit, went on his way to Bhaddiya with a great company of Bhikkhus, with one thousand two hundred and fifty Bhikkhus. And the Blessed One wandering straight on arrived at Bhaddiya. And there the Blessed One stayed in the Gâtiyâvana.
11. And Mendaka the householder heard : ‘Be. hold, that Samana Gotama, of the Sakya clan, who left the Sakya tribe to adopt the religious life, is now arrived at Bhaddiya and is staying in the Gâtiyâvana. Now regarding that venerable Gotama, such is the high reputation that has been noised abroad that he is said to be a fully-enlightened one, blessed, and worthy, abounding in wisdom and goodness, happy, with knowledge of the worlds, unsurpassed, who guides men as a driver curbs a bullock, a teacher of gods and men, a blessed Buddha. He by himself thoroughly understands, and sees, as it
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| SR No. | 007676 |
| Book Title | Text of Confucianism Part 02 |
| 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 |