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Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms

CHAPTER XXV
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There again she fell into her old ways, and had a son by king Bimbisara; but she was won over by Buddha to virtue and chastity, renounced the world, and attained to the state of an Arhat.

See the earliest account of Ambapali's presentation of the garden in "Buddhist Suttas," pp.

30-33, and the note there from Bishop Bigandet on pp.

33, 34.
(4) Beal gives, "In this place I have performed the last religious act of my earthly career;" Giles, "This is the last place I shall visit;" Remusat, "C'est un lieu ou je reviendrai bien longtemps apres ceci." Perhaps the "walk" to which Buddha referred had been for meditation.
(5) See the account of this legend in the note in M.B., pp.

235, 236, different, but not less absurd.


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