Texts from the Buddhist canon : commonly known as Dhammapada

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ADVANTAGEOUS SERVICE. ^
FoRMEELY Bnddha -witli his followers, having gone to the
kingdom of KausSimbt (Ku-tan-mi), he took up his resi-
dence in the Vih§.ra called Mi-yin (lovely sound), and
there preached the word for the sake of Devas and men.
At this time the kiag of the country was called Tau-tien
(UdS,yana), whose queen was of a remarkably pure cha-
racter. Having heard that Buddha had come to his kingdom,
the King and the Queen, with her attendants, went
forth to visit him, and having paid him the usual saluta-
tions, they sat down. Then Buddha, for their sakes, began
to preach and to show the impermanency, sorrow, and
vanity of things around us, from which all our miseries
come. And then he proved that heaven was the reward
of religious merit (virtue), and hell the result of sin (crime).
In consequence of this sermon both the King and Queen
were induced to accept the five rules of a lay-disciple, and
so returned to the palace. Now at this time there was a
certain Brahman called Kih-sing (lucky star), who had a
daughter incomparable for loveliness, just sixteen years
old. On her account thp Brahman, for ninety days, ex-
posed a heap of a thousand gold masurans, and challenged
any one to find a single fault in her, and whoever could
do so .should have the gold. No one being able to do so,
and desiriag to find some one fit for her to marry, he again
challenged any one to bring a man equal to his daughter
in grace, and to him he would give her as a wife. Now,
^ This Beotion, as I have already observed, does not occur in the PSli.
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