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and ornaments and gave them to him and
then went to bathe.”
Upuli said to himself “If these young
noblemen have given up wealth, the plea-
sures of youth, wives, and treasures, to be-
come mendicants, it cannot then be seeming
in me to care for these baubles ; they would
bring me but grief. If I had not had an evil
birth, I would have entered the order of the
well-spoken Dharma, and have devoted myself
to crossing the stream and to freeing myself
of all my bonds,.*” Thus the conscience
of the noble barber chid him, and he became
a Bhikshu. Upali had been received into the
order, while the Sakyas who had gone to bathe
after ‘shaving’ were on their way, so they
were obliged, on being received into the order
to bow down before him. Devadatta, how-
ever, would not do it. “ Son,” the Buddha
said to him, “bow down. Hast thou not
entered the order to cast off pride.” Deva-
datta still refused, and henceforth the Buddha
® The Life of Buddha translated by Rockhill P.-55.
and ornaments and gave them to him and
then went to bathe.”
Upuli said to himself “If these young
noblemen have given up wealth, the plea-
sures of youth, wives, and treasures, to be-
come mendicants, it cannot then be seeming
in me to care for these baubles ; they would
bring me but grief. If I had not had an evil
birth, I would have entered the order of the
well-spoken Dharma, and have devoted myself
to crossing the stream and to freeing myself
of all my bonds,.*” Thus the conscience
of the noble barber chid him, and he became
a Bhikshu. Upali had been received into the
order, while the Sakyas who had gone to bathe
after ‘shaving’ were on their way, so they
were obliged, on being received into the order
to bow down before him. Devadatta, how-
ever, would not do it. “ Son,” the Buddha
said to him, “bow down. Hast thou not
entered the order to cast off pride.” Deva-
datta still refused, and henceforth the Buddha
® The Life of Buddha translated by Rockhill P.-55.