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urers, visited the Teacher, attained Arahatship, and were admitted to 

 the Order. A little later Ghosita, Kukkuta, and Pavariya came to 

 the Teacher, bearing rich offerings, and were established in the Fruit 

 of Conversion. For two weeks the treasurers remained with the 

 Teacher, giving generously of their store, and then, after obtaining 

 the Teacher's promise to visit them, returned to Kosambi. Here they 

 erected Ghosita, Kukkuta, and Pavariya monasteries, and here the 

 Teacher visited them, dividing his time equally among the three. 

 After the treasurers had entertained the Teacher for some time, their 

 gardener Suinana asked and received permission to entertain him for a 

 single day. (206-208) 



Now at this time King Udena was in the habit of giving Queen 

 SamavatI eight pieces of money every day to buy flowers with. This 

 money the queen turned over to a female slave, Khujjuttara, who went 

 regularly to the gardener Sumana's and bought flowers. On the day 

 appointed for the Teacher's visit Sumana said to her : " To-day I ex- 

 pect to entertain the Teacher, and shall have use for my flowers ; wait 

 and listen to the Law, and then, if there are any flowers left, you may 

 have them." Khujjuttara barkened to the Law, and was established 

 in the Fruit of Conversion. Now hitherto it had been Khujjuttara's 

 practice to spend only four pieces of money on flowers, and to pocket 

 the rest. That day, however, she spent the entire amount on flowers, 

 and returned with so many that the queen's curiosity was aroused, and 

 the whole story came out. From that time on Khujjuttara stole no 

 more ; but becoming as it were a mother to SamavatI, went regularly 

 every day to hear the Teacher, and returned and preached the Law to 

 the queen and her retinue exactly as she had heard it. She soon 

 knew the Tipitaka so well as to win from the Teacher the title of 

 "Pre-eminent." Queen SamavatI and her retinue were established in 

 the Fruit of Conversion. (208-210) 



One day SamavatI expressed to Khujjuttara a desire to see the 

 Teacher. Khujjuttara said, " It 's a serious matter to live in a king's 

 palace ; once in, you can't get out." The queen begged her to arrange 

 it in some way. Khujjuttara then told her to make holes in the walls 

 of the palace and to render homage to the Teacher from within. 

 Magandiya came to know of this. (210-211) 



Now Magandiya had cherished the most bitter hatred of the Teacher 

 and his followers ever since the Teacher refused to marry her ; and as 

 soon as she learned that SamavatI and her attendants were making a 

 practice of rendering homage to the Teacher through holes in the walls 

 of the palace, she said to herself, " I know what 's to be done to him ; 

 I know what 's to be done to them." Thereupon Magandiya went to 



