A History of Indian Literature v2.c19.s2.36

v2.c19.s2.36

¹ Mahāvagga, VIII, 26, translated by *Rhys Davids* and *Oldenberg* in SBE, Vol. 17, p. 240 f. However forcibly this passage may remind us of St. Matth. 25, 40 ("Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me "), the situation is, after all, quite different in this case, and the resemblance cannot be more than pure chance.