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Then the elder said, " Come, brother Tissa, I will take this bowl 

 and stand, you sit and eat ; if I let this bowl to go out of my hand, 

 there will be nothing in it." Then the venerable Ldsakatissa ate 

 the four sweets, the high chief, the lord of religion, standing and 

 holding the bowl. By the high supernatural power of the elder 

 it did not waste. On that occasion Losakatissa ate to his full and 

 filled his belly, and on that very day, by the extinction which 

 leaves no element of being behind, he attained extinction. The 

 Buddha himself came to the place and performed the funeral rites. 

 They took the relics and made a shrine. Then the mendicants 

 assembled in the hall of religion, talked there as they sat : 

 " Brethren, Losaka was an unlucky gainless man, but how has 

 such an unlucky little-gain as he attained such glory in religion ?" 

 The teacher, coming to the hall of religion, asked, " What is the 

 subject of your conversation now, mendicants, as you sit together?" 

 They told him what it was. The teacher said, " Mendicants, this 

 mendicant's own acts were the cause of his being a little-gain, and 

 also of his gaining the glory of religion. By his formerly prevent- 

 ing tbe gains of others he became (or was born) a little-gain, 

 while by the fruit of his attainment of clear perception about 

 impermanency, sorrow, and the unreality of the soul,* he was born 

 (or became) a gainer of the glory of religion." He then told the 

 story of the past. 



In the past, in the time of Kassapa Buddha, a certain mendicant 

 was living in a village, dwelling near (and in dependence on) a 

 man of property.! He was a perfect (monk), an observer of the 

 precepts, and possessed of very great insight. An elder of morti- 

 fied desires, as he pursued his regular way of life, arrived for the 

 first time at the village in which lived the man of property who 

 supported this mendicant. The man of property (squire), delighted 

 at the very manner of the elder, took his bowl and made him 

 enter bis house, fed him zealously, and after hearing a short dis- 

 course on religion, made obeisance and said, " Sir, go to the resi- 

 dence we keep up, I will come in the evening to see you ." The elder 

 went to the residence, and after having made obeisance to the 

 resident elder and asked permission, sat down by him. He, after 

 the usual greetings, asked, " Brother, have you had alms-food ?" 

 " Yes," he said. " Where ? " " At the house of the squire of 

 the village you frequent." Having said this, he asked for his own 

 seat, and having performed his toilet and put away his bowl and 



* Anantd : read anattd. 



t Kutumbikam. B. says the v. 1. Kutimbikam is correct. 



