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Sopi bhikkhu sammajjanisālāya sammajjaniṃ ṭhapetvā nahānatthāya gaṅgātitthaṃ gacchanto sāmaṇerassa patthanaṃ sutvā "esa mayā payojitopi tāva evaṃ pattheti, mayhaṃ kiṃ na samijjhissatī"ti cintetvā "yāvāhaṃ nibbānaṃ pāpuṇāmi [na pāpuṇāmi (syā.)], etthantare nibbattanibbattaṭṭhāne ayaṃ gaṅgāūmivego viya akkhayapaṭibhāno bhaveyyaṃ, iminā pucchitapucchitaṃ sabbaṃ pañhapaṭibhānaṃ vijaṭetuṃ nibbeṭhetuṃ samattho bhaveyya"nti patthanaṃ paṭṭhapesi.
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The monk who had struck the novice also went to the Ganges for a wash. He heard the novice’s aspiration, and thinking, “If he who was merely instigated by me can have such hopes, what may I not attain to! ” he made the following aspiration: “May I, wherever I am successively reborn until I attain Nibbāna, be prompt in answering questions and carry all before me like this surge of waves; and may I be able to unravel promptly and explain all the answers to questions put to me constantly by this young man.”
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Now that brother, after he had put the broom away in the broom closet, had likewise wandered down to the river side to bathe, and as he walked he happened to overhear what the novice had said. Then thinking: ‘If this fellow, on the ground of such an act of merit, which after all was instigated by me, can harbour hopes like this, what may not I attain to?’ he too made his wish, and it was thus: ‘In each successive condition in which I may be born till I attain Nirvāṇa, may I too be ready in saying the right thing at once, and more especially may 1 have the power of unravelling and of solving each problem and each puzzling question this young man may put-carrying all before me like this mighty surge!’
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А монах поставил метлу в сарай и тоже спускался к Ганге помыться. Услышав мольбу послушника, он подумал: «Вот о чем он молит! А ведь это я его заставил. Ну, у меня тогда и подавно все сбудется». И он взмолился: «О, быть бы мне в каждом будущем существовании, пока я не достигну покоя, словно это быстрое течение Ганги – неизменно находчивым! Какие бы вопросы он мне ни задал – чтобы я был способен все находчиво заданные им вопросы распутать и разрешить!»
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