Sixth Khandhaka. Chapter 9
9.
1. Now the Blessed One, proceeding on his journey, arrived in due course at Svatthi; and there.
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at Svatthi, the Blessed One stayed in the "G"etavana, the park of Antha Pi"n"d"ika. Then Antha Pi"n"d"ika the householder [invited the Blessed One for the morrow's meal, and when the meal was over, he said to the Blessed One 1]:
'What, Lord, shall I do with regard to the "G"etavana?'
You may dedicate it, O householder, to the use of the Sa"m"gha of the four directions 2 either now here present, or hereafter to arrive.'
'Even so, Lord,' said Antha Pi"n"d"ika the householder in assent to the Blessed One, and he did so.
2. Then the Blessed One gave thanks to Antha Pi"n"d"ika the householder in these verses. [Here follow the same verses as were used above in VI, 1, 5 on the presentation of the "G"etavana 3.]
Footnotes
198:1 The usual terms are here followed throughout: see, for instance, above, Vi, 4, 6, 7.
198:2 That is 'of all the world.' See our note above on Mahvagga Viii, 27, 5, where the phrase has already occurred.
198:3 The verses are quoted in the account of Antha Pi"n"d"ika's gift given in the "G"taka commentary (Fausbll I, 93; Rh. D.'s 'Buddhist Birth Stories,' I, 131).
1. Now the Blessed One, proceeding on his journey, arrived in due course at Svatthi; and there.
p. 198
at Svatthi, the Blessed One stayed in the "G"etavana, the park of Antha Pi"n"d"ika. Then Antha Pi"n"d"ika the householder [invited the Blessed One for the morrow's meal, and when the meal was over, he said to the Blessed One 1]:
'What, Lord, shall I do with regard to the "G"etavana?'
You may dedicate it, O householder, to the use of the Sa"m"gha of the four directions 2 either now here present, or hereafter to arrive.'
'Even so, Lord,' said Antha Pi"n"d"ika the householder in assent to the Blessed One, and he did so.
2. Then the Blessed One gave thanks to Antha Pi"n"d"ika the householder in these verses. [Here follow the same verses as were used above in VI, 1, 5 on the presentation of the "G"etavana 3.]
Footnotes
198:1 The usual terms are here followed throughout: see, for instance, above, Vi, 4, 6, 7.
198:2 That is 'of all the world.' See our note above on Mahvagga Viii, 27, 5, where the phrase has already occurred.
198:3 The verses are quoted in the account of Antha Pi"n"d"ika's gift given in the "G"taka commentary (Fausbll I, 93; Rh. D.'s 'Buddhist Birth Stories,' I, 131).
