Agama And Tripitaka Comparative Study

SR No.: 022804
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Nagaraj Muni
Publisher: Today and Tomorrows Printers and Publishers
Publication Year: 1986
Total Pages: 804
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 19 MB

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The Buddha - "Udãi ! Do you really think so"?
Udai. "Bhante! Your father King Suddhodana is keen to see you. You should also have recruits from your own people".
The Buddha - "Very good, I shall receive converts from my own people. Meanwhile, tell the monks to get ready to depart".
When the Buddha started, he had a following of 10,000 from Anga and Magadha, and another 10, 000 from Kapilavastu. These 20, 000 were arhats with little (no) sin. Travelling at a speed of a yojana per day, they reached Kapilavastu in sixty days. On hearing that the Buddha had arrived to their city, all the Sakyas held a meet ing and chose the Nyagrodha garden for his stay. They cleaned it and decorated it in a beautiful manner. To receive him, they sent young boys and girls, nicely dressed and wearing ornaments, with flowers, incences, etc., in their hands. They were followed by princes and princesses, In this manner, offering him ovation and worship, they brought him to the Nyagrodha halt. The Buddha resumed an appropriate seat (buddhāsana) established by his 20,000 ar hats.'
On the following day, followed by his monks, the Buddha entered into Kapilavastu to beg. In the city, no one invited them to dinner, and none held their begging bowls. The Buddha stood on the indra-kila and thought,
"How did the Buddhas in the past beg in their own cities? Did they beg from the selected affluent homes, or, did they beg from one end without discrimination"?
He learnt that they discarded no home but begged all from end to end. He thought again,
"As a Buddha, I belong to the same line. Then I must adhere to the practice of my line, In future, my followers will follow the practice I uphold before them and fulfil the rule of begging".