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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"Bhante! The heretics have put up a pandal for their own use. (if you kindly permit me, ) I would like to erect one for thy use."
- ''No, King, I have another person who will erect the pandal for me."
- "Bhante! Who else other than me can erect a pandal for thee here?"
- "Oh King! (Don't you worry.) This will be done for me by Sakra, the King of the gods."
- "Then, bhante, where will ye display thy occult
power?"
- "Why? Beneath the mango tree of Ganda."
This news soon spread. The heretics heard this and managed to remove all mango trees upto a distance of one yojana. (What to speak of full grown trees, ) not even a fresh sprout was allowed to remain on earth.
The Great Leader entered śråvasti on the full-moon day of Āsādha. Ganda, the keeper of the king's garden saw a big-sized ripe mango behind a shrub. He drove away the crows that were attracted to it by its smell and juice. Then he took the mango in his hand and started to present it to the king. In the way, he saw, the Great Leader. Suddenly a thought sprouted in his mind, 'If I give this mango to the king, he will give me at the most eight or sixteen kārşā - panas. That will not be enough for my livelihood. But if I offer the mango to the Great Leader, then that will do me good for an unlimited time.' Having thought thus, he brought the mango to the Great Leader. The Leader suck the juice of that mango and said to Ganda,
"You dig the soil here and sow this seed."
Ganda did accordingly. The Leader wa shed his hands on the spot. In a moment, there grew out a giant mango tree fifty cubits long. Its trunk produced four big branches which spread forth in four directions, each being fifty cubits long, and these, along with the central trunk, looked