Buddha: His Life, his Doctrine, his Order c8.s1.t2.17

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pleased to bring it about that the Malla Roja shall be won to this doctrine and ordinance.” And Buddha willingly complies with this request of his disciple (“ Mahâvagga,” vi, 36). If the texts permit any person at random, not specified by name, to come to Buddha and to be taught by him, they describe such a person as a rule as “ a certain Brahman ” (especially numerous instances occur in the “ Anguttara-Nikâya, Tika-Nipâta ”). The text of the Jainas also furnish similar cases. In the simile of the lotus flower, which is to be delivered from the miry earth (in the Sûtrakṛidanga), the flower is not any man at large in need of deliverance, but “ a king.”