NO. 6. — 1853.] BUDDHISM. — CHARIYA PITAKA, 



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6 As the Minister, desirous of being steward of the royal 

 household, will lose his office if he neglect to supply the necessary 

 provisions and wealth : 



i So I, desirous of being eminently meritorious, shall be 

 deprived of merit, if, seeing this holy man, I do not present him 

 with offerings. ' 



Thus thinking, I took off my sandal^ and worshipping his 

 feet, I presented him with my sandals and umbrella. 



Thus I gave him alms, received thereby happiness a hundred- 

 fold, and continued to fill up the measure of my liberality. 



End of the Brahmin Sa/ikha. 



Afterwards I was Dananjaya, king of the great city of Inda- 

 patta, exercising the ten regal virtues. 



Some Brahmins came to me from Kalinga, and requested me 

 to give them my noble, valuable, state elephant. 



They said, " We have no rain in our country and there is a 

 great famine ; give us your noble elephant, which is as a dark 

 mountain of antimony." 



When supplicants approached me it was not becoming that 

 I should reject their request, and break my rule of liberality. 

 I therefore gave them my large elephant. 



Taking the elephant by the trunk, and from a golden vessel 

 pouring water on the hands of the Brahmins, I gave the 

 elephant. 



When I thus gave the elephant my councillors enquired, 

 " Why do you give your noble elephant to beggars ? 



" If you give your valuable state elephant, able to ensure 

 victory in war, what will you do with your kingdom? " 



(I replied) " I would even give my kingdom : I would give 

 my own body: my desire is to become Buddha, and on that 

 account I give the elephant alms." 



End of Dananjaya. 



