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III. <strong>The</strong> Miracles at Uruvelā - 137<br />
[Aggipāṭihāriyāni]<br />
[33: <strong>The</strong> Sacred Fire Miracles]<br />
Tena kho pana samayena te jaṭilā aggī paricaritukāmā<br />
<strong>The</strong>n at that time those yogis who wanted to tend the sacred fires<br />
na sakkonti kaṭṭhāni phāletuṁ.<br />
were not able to chop the firewood.<br />
Atha kho tesaṁ jaṭilānaṁ etad-ahosi:<br />
<strong>The</strong>n this occurred to those yogis:<br />
“Nissaṁsayaṁ kho Mahāsamaṇassa iddhānubhāvo<br />
“No doubt it is because of the <strong>Great</strong> Ascetic’s psychic power<br />
yathā mayaṁ na sakkoma kaṭṭhāni phāletun.”-ti<br />
that we are not able to chop the firewood.”<br />
Atha kho Bhagavā Uruvelakassapaṁ jaṭilaṁ etad-avoca:<br />
<strong>The</strong>n the Gracious One said this to the yogi Uruvelakassapa:<br />
“Phāliyantu Kassapa kaṭṭhānī.” ti<br />
“Let the firewood be chopped, 182 Kassapa.”<br />
“Phāliyantu Mahāsamaṇā,” ti<br />
“Let it be chopped, <strong>Great</strong> Ascetic,”<br />
sakid-eva pañca kaṭṭhasatāni phāliyiṁsu.<br />
and more than five hundred pieces of firewood were chopped.<br />
Atha kho Uruvelakassapassa jaṭilassa etad-ahosi:<br />
<strong>The</strong>n this occurred to the yogi Uruvelakassapa:<br />
“Mahiddhiko kho Mahāsamaṇo mahānubhāvo,<br />
“Powerful and majestic is this <strong>Great</strong> Ascetic,<br />
yatra hi nāma kaṭṭhāni pi phāliyissanti,<br />
since (on his say so) firewood can be chopped,<br />
na tveva ca kho Arahā yathā ahan.”-ti<br />
but he is surely not a Worthy One like I am.”<br />
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182 From the verb phāliyati, passive of phāleti, unnoticed in PED.
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