Texts from the Buddhist canon : commonly known as Dhammapada

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SECTION XV.
THE EAHAT (ARAHANTAVAGGO).
I. In old time there was a country called Na-lai (Kara),
near the Southern Sea, in which the people gained their Uve-
lihood by seeking for pearls and selling sandal-wood. It
happened that there were two brothers in this country,
whose parents being dead, they agreed to separate and
seek their several fortunes. One of them had a slave
called Fun-na (Piirna) of very quick intellect, who went
out on his journey to seek for some profitable adventure
for his master. Having made considerable gain by the
sale of some ox-head sandal-Wood, he came to Sr§,vastl,
and meeting with Buddha, was converted and became a
Eahat. Eeturning then to his own people, and exhibiting
before them the wonderful powers he possessed— ^viz., of
ascending into the air, and causing water and fire to pro- »
ceed from his person— ^he led many of them to become
disciples, and finally, at their entreaty, Buddha himself
came to convert the King, on which occasion the Worldhonouied
uttered these stanzas
" His^ mind having been quieted, his words and
deeds are also at rest ; freed by the truth, in perfect
peace he returns to (or finds refuge in) Nirvana.
Free from desire, without entanglements, released
from the impediments of the world (three worlds),
all thoughts of self-indulgence gone, this man is
1 Compare vt. 96, 98, 99 of the P&li.
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