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528 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
door is shut. Do you go up quietly, without nervous-. ness, enter the verandah, cough, and rattle the doorbar.. The Exalted One will open the door to you.”
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So Pasendi, the rajah of Kosala, went up to the lodging as he was told, coughed and rattled the doorbar. And the Exalted One opened the door.
Then Pasendi entered the lodging, fell with his head at the feet of the Exalted One, kissed His feet and stroked them with his hands, and announced his name, saying, “ Lord, I am Pasendi, the rajah of Kosala.”
“But, Maharajah, seeing what significance therein, do you show me this profound humanity and pay such affectionate obeisance to this body,” said the Lord!