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Buddhacarita by Ven Asvaghosa - Ancient Buddhist Texts

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Buddha-carita, or Life of Buddha - 225<br />

youth came to the Bodhi tree and practised for six years a penance<br />

hard to carry out, then he paid worship to the chief of saints who had<br />

attained perfect knowledge, and he became the well known Kāśyapa,<br />

the chief of ascetics, the foremost of the Arhats.<br />

13. The saint Naradatta, dwelling on Mount Himavat, remembering<br />

the wholesome words of his maternal uncle, came to the Sugata with<br />

his disciples, and the holy one admitted them all into the order of the<br />

Jina; then a woman named Śakti, and another named Kamalā, preeminent<br />

in Brāhmanical power, came to the Sugata and fell down at<br />

his feet, and then standing before him they were received <strong>by</strong> the saint,<br />

and made happy with the staff and begging-bowl.<br />

14. Seven hundred disciples of the ascetic Rudraka, remembering the<br />

noble words of their teacher, becoming mendicants according to the<br />

doctrine of the Jina, flocked round him paying him their homage and<br />

carrying their staves; next a seer, named Raivata, joyfully uttering his<br />

praises, having finished his course of discipline, became a mendicant,<br />

full of devotion to the guru, counting gold and clay as the same, well<br />

versed in sacred spells and meditation, and able to counteract the<br />

three kinds of poisons and other fatal harms.<br />

15. Having received as followers and disciples certain householders of<br />

Śrāvastī, Pūrṇa and others, and given them alms-vessels, – and having<br />

made many poor wretches as rich as Kuvera, and maimed persons<br />

with all their limbs perfect, and paupers and orphans affluent, – and<br />

having proclaimed the Law, and dwelt two years in the forest Jetaka

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