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So hāyasmā upasampadāya aṭṭhavassiko hutvā therambatthale mahārohaṇaguttattherassa gilānupaṭṭhānaṃ āgatānaṃ tiṃsamattānaṃ iddhimantasahassānaṃ majjhe nisinno therassa yāguṃ paṭiggāhayamānaṃ upaṭṭhākanāgarājānaṃ gahessāmīti ākāsato pakkhandantaṃ supaṇṇarājānaṃ disvā tāvadeva pabbataṃ nimminitvā nāgarājānaṃ bāhāyaṃ gahetvā tattha pāvisi.
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Eight years after his admission to the Community that elder was sitting in the midst of thirty thousand bhikkhus possessed of supernormal powers who had gathered to attend upon the sickness of the Elder Mahā- Rohanagutta at Therambatthala. He saw a royal supaṇṇa (bird) swooping down from the sky intending to seize an attendant royal nāga-serpent as he was getting rice-gruel accepted for the elder. The Elder Buddharakkhita created a rock meanwhile, and seizing the royal nāga by the arm, he pushed him inside it.
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Supaṇṇarājā pabbate pahāraṃ datvā palāyi.
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The royal supaṇṇa gave the rock a blow and made off.
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Mahāthero āha – "sace, āvuso, buddharakkhito nābhavissa, sabbeva gārayhā assāmā"ti.
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The senior elder remarked: “Friends, if Rakkhita had not been there, we should all have been put to shame. ”40
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Comm. NT: 40. What the story is trying to illustrate is the rapidity with which the elder entered the jhāna, controlled its duration, and emerged, whi...
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