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The Master’s Death
are two offerings of food which are supremely precious—
that which is given immediately before One-who-has-thus-
come attains to Perfect Insight, and the other before his
utter passing away: and “there has been laid up to
Cunda the smith a kamma redounding to length of life,
good birth, good fortune and good fame, and to the
inheritance of heaven and of sovereign power; and there-
fore let not Cunda the smith feel any remorse.”
The Master s Death
Then the Exalted One said to Ananda: “ Come, Ananda,
let us go on to the Sala-grove of the Mallas, on the
further side of the river Hiranyavati.” And when they
were come there, he said: “Spread over for me, I pray
you, Ananda, the couch with its head to the north, between
the Twin Sala trees. I am weary, Ananda, and would lie
down.” “ Even so, lord! ” said the venerable Ananda.
And the Exalted One laid himself down on his right side,
with one leg resting on the other; and he was mindful
and self-possessed.
And now there came to pass certain marvels, and the
Master spoke of these to Ananda, and said: “ The twin
Sala trees are all one mass of bloom with flowers out of
season; all over the body of Him-who-has-thus-attained,
these drop and sprinkle and scatter themselves, out of
reverence for the successors of the Buddhas of old. And
heavenly music sounds in the sky, out of reverence for
the successors of the Buddhas of old. But it is not
thus, Ananda, that He-who-has-thus-attained is rightly
honoured, and reverenced. But the brother or the sister,
the devout man or woman who continually fulfils all the
greater and lesser duties, who is correct in life, walking
according to the precepts—it is he who rightly honours
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are two offerings of food which are supremely precious—
that which is given immediately before One-who-has-thus-
come attains to Perfect Insight, and the other before his
utter passing away: and “there has been laid up to
Cunda the smith a kamma redounding to length of life,
good birth, good fortune and good fame, and to the
inheritance of heaven and of sovereign power; and there-
fore let not Cunda the smith feel any remorse.”
The Master s Death
Then the Exalted One said to Ananda: “ Come, Ananda,
let us go on to the Sala-grove of the Mallas, on the
further side of the river Hiranyavati.” And when they
were come there, he said: “Spread over for me, I pray
you, Ananda, the couch with its head to the north, between
the Twin Sala trees. I am weary, Ananda, and would lie
down.” “ Even so, lord! ” said the venerable Ananda.
And the Exalted One laid himself down on his right side,
with one leg resting on the other; and he was mindful
and self-possessed.
And now there came to pass certain marvels, and the
Master spoke of these to Ananda, and said: “ The twin
Sala trees are all one mass of bloom with flowers out of
season; all over the body of Him-who-has-thus-attained,
these drop and sprinkle and scatter themselves, out of
reverence for the successors of the Buddhas of old. And
heavenly music sounds in the sky, out of reverence for
the successors of the Buddhas of old. But it is not
thus, Ananda, that He-who-has-thus-attained is rightly
honoured, and reverenced. But the brother or the sister,
the devout man or woman who continually fulfils all the
greater and lesser duties, who is correct in life, walking
according to the precepts—it is he who rightly honours
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