ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY. 



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is now Chulla Pant'haka, and I who am now Budha was then 

 the nobleman Chulla Sett'ho. 



End of Chulla Setti Jataka. 



The sixth, or Dew a- da m m, a Jatdkan. 



Verse.— -Peaceful good men, modest* fearing sin, and endued 

 with virtue, are even in this world called Divine. 



Legend.-— When Budha resided at Jetawaney, he delivered 

 this discourse on account of a rich priest. A rich man of Sewat, 

 upon the death of his wife, intending to enter the priesthood, 

 erected for himself a dwelling with a sitting room and a store 

 room* filling the latter with ghee, rice, &c. He then became 

 a priest, and his servants brought him such food as he desired* 

 He had great store of garments and other priestly requisites, 

 and wore one dress at night and another in the day t his apart- 

 ments were at the extremity of the monastery. One day, when 

 he had taken out his robes, coverlets, &c, to spread them out 

 to air, a number of country priests came to his rooms, and seeing 

 the robes, &c, said, whose are these? Mine, he replied. 

 What, priest, this robe and that robe ; this under-garment and 

 that under-garment ? Yes, friends, they are all mine. They 

 then said, Friend, Budha only permits the possession of three 

 robes (forming one set so as to be worn at one time) and you, 

 a priest of this self-denying religion, have accumulated all 

 these. Come, let us take him to Budha. Budha seeing them, 

 said, Why do you bring this priest to me against his will ! 

 For what purpose have you come ? They replied, Lord, this 

 priest has many goods and a large ward-robe. Is it true, priest, 

 that you have many goods ? It is true, Bagawa. Why have 

 you procured them ? Certainly, I teach contentment with little ; 

 a restraining both of body and mind, and perseverance in 



