BURLINGAME. — BUDDHAGHOSA's DHAMMAPADA COMMENTARY. 513 



in alms to the poor, and suggested that they send their daughter to 

 hirn to procure food until they recovered sufficient strength to pay hini 

 a visit. (187-8) 



So it happened that the daughter of a wealthy house accompanied 

 poor folk to Ghosaka's hall for alms. " How many portions will you 

 have?" "Three." That night her father died. " How many portions 

 will you have 1 " " Two." That night her mother died. " How 

 many portions will you have 1 " " One." A householder named 

 Mitta, who remembered that she had taken more on the two previous 

 days, said to her, " I suppose that is all you can hold to-day." This 

 cruel remark cut her to the quick, and she said, "Sir, don't think I 

 took more for myself; before we were three, yesterday two, to-day I am 

 left alone." She then told him the whole story, whereupon he took 

 pity on her and adopted her as his oldest daughter. She rendered 

 such valuable assistance in the administration of the hall where Gho- 

 saka's alms were distributed as to attract the attention of Ghosaka 

 himself, who, upon learning that she was the daughter of Bhadda- 

 vatiya, gave her a retinue of five hundred women and made her as his 

 own oldest daughter. One day King Udena saw her, fell in love with 

 her, and married her. She became one of his queen-consorts, and the 

 women of her retinue ladies-in-waiting. (188-191) 



Id. Vasuladatta. 



Another of Udena's queen-consorts was Vasuladatta, daughter of 

 Candapajjota, king of Ujjeni. Udena gained possession of her in the 

 following way : (191-2) 



One day King Candapajjota said to his ministers, " Is there any 

 other monarch so powerful as I am 1 ?" "Of course not," said they; 

 "but yet King Udena of Kosambi is pretty powerful." " Well then, 

 let's take him prisoner." " It can't be done ; he understands how to 

 charm elephants, and has more elephants at his disposal than any other 

 king." " I suppose it can't be done." " Well, if your heart is set on 

 doing it, you might try this stratagem : Have a wooden elephant 

 made, and send it out somewhere near him ; he will go a long way 

 after a good mount, and you can take him prisoner as he approaches." 

 " That is a stratagem ! " (192) 



Thereupon Candapajjota had a mechanical elephant made of wood, 

 and turned it loose where Udena would be sure to see it. It looked 

 exactly like a real elephant ; moreover, it was fitted with mechanical 

 appliances worked from the inside, so that it moved hither and thither 

 just like a real elephant; its belly held sixty men, who worked the 

 mechanism, and every now and then dumped out a quantity of ele- 

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