1. Now the Blessed One, proceeding on his journey, arrived in due course at
Sâvatthi; and there.
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at Sâvatthi, the Blessed One stayed in the Jetavana, the park of Anâtha Pindika.
Then Anâtha Pindika 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 Jetavana?'
You may dedicate it, O householder, to the use of the Samgha of the four
directions 2 either now here present, or hereafter to arrive.'
'Even so, Lord,' said Anâtha Pindika the householder in assent to the Blessed
One, and he did so.
2. Then the Blessed One gave thanks to Anâtha Pindika the householder in these
verses. [Here follow the same verses as were used above in VI, 1, 5 on the
presentation of the Jetavana 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 Mahâvagga VIII, 27, 5,
where the phrase has already occurred.
198:3 The verses are quoted in the account of Anâtha Pindika's gift given in the
Jâtaka commentary (Fausböll I, 93; Rh. D.'s 'Buddhist Birth Stories,' I, 131).
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