Mahapadanasutta 1.38

1.38

'Now Bandhuman raja, brethren, had three palaces built for the boy Vipassi, one for the rains, one for the winter and one for the summer, and he had them fitted with every kind of gratification for the five senses. Thus it came to pass that Vipassi spent
1 The Cy. relates of the bird that it sings a flute-like song after pecking at honey and mangoes, and that the song exercises a sort of Orpheus- spell over every beast that hears it. Asandhimitta, the consort of Asoka, was converted by it. She had inquired of the Order, if it were known what the Buddha's voice was like; and on its being compared to the karavika's song, wished to hear that. Asoka sent for one, which would not sing in its cage, till a mirror was placed by it. Fancying it saw a kinsman, it sang, throwing every one into ecstasies, and so exalting the queen's idea of the Buddha's voice, that she attained 'the fruit of sotapatti.'
2 That is, not by special practice, but as the result of action in former births, as with the fairies' power of vision. Cy.
3 Vipassi refers rather to the inward vision of the seer. Vipassana is insight or intuition.
4 Namely by giving signs of dissatisfaction when a decision was wrong.
the four months of the rainy season in the rains-palace, ministered to by bands of female musicians 1; and not once did he come down (from the upper terrace) into the mansion.'
Here endeth the Birth chapter.
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