THE FOUNDATION
OF THE KINGDOM OF
RIGHTEOUSNESS.
XV.
UPAKA.
NOW the Blessed One thought: "To whom shall I preach the doctrine first? My old teachers are dead. They would have received the good news with joy. But my five disciples are still alive. I shall go to them, and to them shall I first proclaim the gospel of deliverance."1
At that time the five bhikkhus dwelt in the Deer Park at Benares, and the Blessed
