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eating, drinking, with your retinue enjoying yoiirself, and 

 performing merits, become cheerful. We do not consent to your 

 separation from the world, and that you should become a men- 

 dicant cleric. When that was said, Sudinno was silent ; and the 

 second time, &c. And the third time also, the mother and father 

 of Sudinno said this to Sudmno : — Thou art, O child Sudinno, 

 our only son, well-beloved, surrounded with pleasures, tenderly 

 nourished, and unacquainted with any grief. Even by death 

 we cannot desire separation from thee. What then ! shall we 

 consent, while you are still alive, that yon should separate from 

 the lay state, and become a mendicant cleric ? Get up, O child 

 Sudinno, eat and drink, and surrounded by your companions, 

 eating, drinking, with your retinue enjoying yourself, and 

 performing merits, become cheerful. We do not consent to 

 your separation from the world, that you should become a 

 mendicant cleric. And the third time Sudinno, the son of 

 Kalando, was silent. 



Then the companions of Sudinno went to the place where 

 Sudinno was, and having arrived, said this to Sudinno : — Thou 

 art, O friend Sudinno, the beloved and only son of thy mother 

 and father, endeared, surrounded with pleasures, tenderly 

 nourished, and 'established m ease. friend Sudinno, thou hast 

 not known any grief; and by death even, your mother and 

 father do not desire your separation. What then ! will they 

 consent, while you are alive, that you should separate from 

 the world, that you may become a mendicant cleric ? 



Get up, O friend Sudinno, eat and drink, and surrounded 

 by your companions, Srev^ Vide supra. 



When they had thus said, Sudinno was silent ; and the 

 second time, &c. ; and the third time, &c, &c. 



And the third time also Sudinno was silent. Then the 



companions of Sudinno went to the place where the mother 



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