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past, comforted her, and directed the Heiress to take her home with 

 her and care for her tenderly. Thenceforth they befriended each other 

 in every possible way. It was Kali who established the Eight Ticket- 

 Foods, which are kept up even to this day. (51-3) 



Book I. Story 5. The Monks of Kosambi. 17 



ILLUSTRATING STANZA 6 = 6. 



Two monks with a retinue of five hundred monks each resided at 

 Kosambi ; one a student of the Vinaya, the other, of the Suttas. One 

 day the latter committed the sin of leaving water standing in the bath- 

 room, for which he was reproved by his brother, who, however, on 

 being informed that the offense was unintentional, assured him that he 

 was guiltless. The Vinaya scholar then proceeded to tell his pupils 

 that the Sutta scholar had committed sin and had no conscience about 

 it. The latter, hearing of this, declared the former to be a liar, and 

 was shortly thereafter excommunicated. Then ensued a quarrel in 

 which monks, nuns, unconverted persons, and deities from the lowest 

 heaven to the highest were involved. (53-4) 



The circumstances of the quarrel among the monks were reported to 

 Buddha, who sent word to them to patch up their differences. Twice 

 he did this, and twice the answer came back that they would not. 

 Then he went in person, pointed out to both factions the wrong in- 

 volved in their actions, and laid down rules of conduct for their 

 observance. Hearing that they were quarrelling again, he went to 

 them the second time, urged them to be united, and spoke to them 

 long and earnestly on the unprofitableness of discord, illustrating his 

 remarks by telling the Latukika Jataka, the Sammodamana Jataka, 18 

 and the story of Brahmadatta, Dighati, and Dighavu. 19 But in spite 

 of his best efforts, he was unable to restore harmony. (54-6) 



Disheartened by his failure to reconcile their differences, he left 

 them, went quite alone to the village of Balaka the salt-maker, where 

 he discoursed to the Elder Bhagu on the solitary life ; thence to East- 

 ern Bamboo Deer-park where he discoursed to the three noble youths 

 on the bliss to be found in the sweets of concord ; and from there to 

 Protected Forest, where he spent the rainy season pleasantly, attended 

 by the elephant Parileyyaka. (56-7) 



17 Cf. Ja. iii. 486-490. 



18 The text says simply " Vattaka-jataka, " i. e., "Quail Jataka," of 

 which there are several. 



19 Vinaya i. 342-349 (translated SBE. xvii. 293-305). 



