bawa May 28th, 2008
Going into the city for alms and showing favour to the people (by preaching); eating in the king’s house and showing favour to the king (by preaching) the thera dwelt twenty-six days in the Mahamegha-grove. But when, on the thirteenth day of the bright half of the month Asalha[], the lofty-souled (thera) had eaten in the great king’s house and had preached (to him) the Mahappamada-suttanta,[] he went thence, for he would fain have a vihara founded on the Cetiya-mountain,[] departing by the east gate (he went) to the Cetiya-mountain. Continue Reading »
bawa May 28th, 2008
WHEN they saw that the elephant’s hall was also too small, the people who had assembled there, full of pious zeal, prepared seats for the theras outside the southern gate, in the pleasant Nandana-garden[] in the royal park, thickly shaded, cool and covered with verdure. The thera went forth by the south gate and seated himself there. Numbers of women of noble families who came thither sat at the thera’s feet filling the garden. And to them the thera preached the Balapandita-suttanta.[]A thousand of the women attained to the first stage of salvation. So, there in the grove, evening fell. Continue Reading »
bawa May 28th, 2008
THE king Devanampiyatissa who had arranged a waterfestival for the dwellers in the capital, set forth to enjoy the pleasures of the chase. Attended by forty thousand of his men he went on foot to the Missaka-mountain. The deva of the mountain who desired to show the theras to him, appeared there in the form of an elk-stag browsing in the thicket. When the king saw him, he thought: ‘It is unseemly to kill an unheeding (creature)’ and he struck out a sound from his bowstring; the stag fled towards the mountain. The king pursued, but the stag in his flight drew near to the thera. When the thera came into the prince’s view the (deva) himself vanished. Continue Reading »
