Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c19.99

c19.99

² In personal matters also, the Buddha showed a conservativeness acquired from his early associations. He was proud of his Ikshvāku lineage even when a recluse. He told the Brahmin Krishṇāyana, who had insulted him as a S'ākya, that he (Krishṇāyana) was descended from one of the slave girls of the Ikshvākus. 'If you do not give a clear reply (to my charge), then your head will split in pieces on the spot.' *Ambattha Sutta*, Sutta 20, Rhys Davids, *Dialogues*, I, 114-116.