The Beginnings of Buddhist Art and Other Essays in Indian and Central-Asian Archaeology c7.s1.t2.39

c7.s1.t2.39

Now there was indeed a celebrated occasion on which, after the great internal quarrel of Kauçambî, Buddha left his community, in order to retire into solitude : and he was among the beasts and the beasts even served him (Mahâvagga, x, 4, 6-7). But here we find none of the traditional details of the episode, at least as it is related in the Pâli text.