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10. — THE HAPPY LIFE
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He who needs no others to defend him,
He who has not others to defend, —
He it is who lives at ease, O king!
Untroubled he with yearnings or with lusts.
When the king had listened to this discourse, he was satisfied again; and taking leave, he returned to the palace. And the disciple, too, took his leave, and returned to the Himālaya region. But the Bodisat dwelt there in continued meditation till he died, and he was then reborn in the Brahma heaven.
When the Teacher had preached this discourse, and told the two stories, he established the connexion, and summed up the Jātaka as follows: "The pupil of that time was Bhaddiya the Elder, but the Master of the company of disciples was I myself."[1]
END OF THE STORY ON A HAPPY LIFE.
- ↑ This story is founded on the similar story told of Bhaddhiya (the same Bhaddiya as the one mentioned in the Introductory Story) in the Culla Vagga, VII. i. 5, 6. The next story but one (the Banyan Deer) is one of those illustrated in the Bharhut sculptures. Both must therefore belong to the very earliest period in Buddhist history.
