BDRLINGAME. — BUDDHAGHOSA's DHAMMAPADA COMMENTARY. 495 



Kala also became a monk, but with the intention of leaving the Order 

 and taking his brother with him. (66-8) 



After Maha Kala had been professed, he inquired of the Teacher 

 how many were the Burdens of the Religious Life, and upon being told 

 that there were two : namely, the Burden of Study and the Burden ot 

 Insight, he chose the latter as being better suited to his advanced 

 years. He had the Teacher instruct him in the ascetic practices that 

 one performs in a cemetery, and at the end of the first watch, while 

 the others were asleep, he went to the cemetery and spent the night in 

 meditation, returning to the monastery before the others had risen. 

 (68) 



For some time Maha Kala followed the routine laid down for him by 

 the cemetery-attendant without success. Meanwhile Cula Kala won- 

 dered at his brother's perseverance and pined for son and wife. 

 Finally Maha Kala attained Arahatship by contemplating the destruc- 

 tion by fire of the corpse of a beautiful girl. (68-71) 



At this time the Teacher, accompanied by the Congregation of 

 Monks, visited Setavya. Maha Kala sent Cula Kala to attend to the 

 seating arrangements. Cula Kala's wives subjected him to such 

 ridicule that he then and there left the Order. Maha Kala's wives 

 then laid plans to recover their husband. Now Cula Kala had only 

 two wives, while Maha Kala had eight. The monks therefore openly 

 expressed the opinion that Maha Kala would succumb to their wiles. 

 The Teacher, however, told them that they were wrong ; and compar- 

 ing Cula Kala to a feeble tree standing on the edge of a precipice, and 

 Maha Kala to a rocky mountain, pronounced Stanzas 7-8. Maha 

 Kala escaped from the clutches of his wives by soaring through the 

 air. At the conclusion of the stanzas, the assembled monks were 

 established in the Fruits. (71-7) 



Book I. Story 7. Devadatta. 



ILLUSTRATING STANZAS 9-10 = 9-10. 



One day the Venerable Sariputta preached a sermon on the two-fold 

 duty of giving alms and urging others to do likewise. Thereupon a 

 lay brother invited him to bring his retinue of a thousand monks and 

 take a meal with him. Sariputta accepted the invitation ; and the lay 

 brother, with the assistance of the inhabitants of Rajagaha, each of 

 whom responded to his request to give alms according to his ability, 

 entertained the monks handsomely. Now a certain householder had 

 given the lay brother a costly robe, with the understanding that if the 

 supply of food proved insufficient, he was to sell it and buy more food 



