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PALI AND OTHER SOURCES OF “THE BUDDHA AND HIS DHAMMA”
P AGE V ERSE
Third week meditation under Muchalind tree where the Naga king Muchalind protects him with his hood.
In the Fourth week he meditates under Rajayatan tree (Mahavagga 11) also called Ajapal tree.
(Ariyapariyesana Sutta, Jataka attakatha).
About the night on which Gautama attained Enlightenment, Sir Monier Williams writes, ‘In the first night watch, he gained knowledge of all previous births, in the 2nd present states of beings, in the 3rd chain of cause and effect and in the 4th he knew all things.
Note No. (13) 75 76 These questions were quoted from
5-6 Majjhim by Louis de la Vallee Poussin in Hibbert lectures under the title ‘The way to Nirvana’. Dr. Ambedkar in his introduction to the book claims that the Buddha did not preach four Aryan truths. He raised only two questions. In this chapter he presents these questions. Mr. K. J. Saunders in his ‘Gotama Buddha’ (a biography based on the canonical books of the Theravadins) writes,
“The early Books certainly make it clear that it was only within certain welldefined limits that he indulged in metaphysical explanation.” One thing only do I teach, O monks, sorrow and the uprooting of sorrow”: that is surely an authentic word of the teacher, which defines the limits of his purpose and is the central thing in his ethics.”