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Pant'haka so early in the morning. He replied, Lord! my 

 brother has expelled me, and I am about to retire to secular 

 life. Budha then said, Chulla Pant'haka your profession! of 

 priesthood is my concern : if you are expelled by your bro- 

 ther why should you leave me ? What will secular life ad- 

 vantage you : stop with me. So saying, he took him to the 

 door of his own apartments, and, seating him with his lace to- 

 wards the east said, Rub this cloth in your hand saying, Defile- 

 ment is contracted ! Defilement is contracted ! and remain here: he 

 then placed in his hands an extremely clean white cloth. Having done 

 this he went with the other priests to the house of Jiwaka and occu- 

 pied the seat prepared for him. In the mean time Chulla 

 Pant'haka sat looking at the sun, and rubbing the cloth, re- 

 peating Defilement is contracted ! Defilement is contracted ! by 

 which continued rubbing the cloth became dirty. He then re- 

 flected: This piece of cloth was exceedingly clean and white, 

 but on account of my rubbing it with my hands it has con- 

 tracted dirt, and its previous state is changed ; thus it is with 

 the constituent parts of man, nothing remains permanently the 

 same : all things fade away and are reproduced : and thus his 

 perception of troth enlarged. 



Budha knowing that he had this perception of truth, caused a 

 miraculous vision of himself, seated with his face towards the 

 east, and splendor irradiating from his body, to appear before 

 Chulla Pant'haka, and said, You perceive that through contact 

 with your hands this piece ol cloth has become defiled, and the 

 filth remains; by this you learn that defilement even desire is 

 within you : put that away. He then spake the following verses : 



Not only is dirt defilement, but lust (or desire) is so also : 

 Defilement signifies lust. Priests having put away this defile- 

 ment, live in the practise of the undefiled religion. 



[The same is repeated substituting wrath and folly 

 for lust.] 



When Budha had spoken these verses Chulla Pant'haka be- 



