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Very well ! Such a form has the appearance of Kahatship. 

 Then Weranja Brahmin, Was Bagawa in any place (1) 

 came to that place ; and having arrived and accosted (him) 

 concluded with Bhagawa, a complimentary conversation, sat 

 down on one side. Weranja Brahman, who was seated on one 

 side, said this to Bhagawa : — It has been heard by me, vir- 

 tuous Gotamo, that the Samana Gotamo neither salutes reve- 

 rently nor stands up (before), nor invites to a seat, decayed, 

 reverend, aged, ancient Brahmans. So it is, O virtuous 

 Gotamo, that the virtuous Gotamo neither salutes reverently 

 nor stands up (before) nor invites to a seat Brahmans who are 

 decayed, reverend, ancient, arrived at old age. This is not 

 proper, O virtuous Gotamo that it should be so. 



I do not perceive, O Brahman, either in the Divine Mara 

 Brahman, Samana Brahman, Sentient, Kegal or Human worlds, 

 beings who may either be worshipped, or stood up before, or 

 invited to a seat by me. O Brahman, if Tathagato (2) were 

 either to worship, or stand up before, or offer a seat to any one, 

 his head would fall off. 



The illustrious Gotamo is uncivil,— O Brahman, there is 

 a cause, and by that cause it may well be said, that the illus- 

 trious Gotamo is uncivil. O Brahman, these, viz., taste, the 

 desire for form, sound, smell, taste, and feeling, are separate 

 from Tathagato, and like the palmyra cut up at the root, which 

 has no further existence nor another birth. This is the rule, 

 O Brahman, and by that rule it may well be said, that the 

 Samano Gotamo is uncivil ; but not on the account of Avhich 

 you speak. 



(1.) A set form in the Pali, used, as there is no relative pro- 

 noun. More lit : " By what was Bhagawa? By that he came." 



(2 ) Tathagato — Various meanings, as, "he who thus has 

 departed," or, "he who thus came." The Teacher. 



