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8. Importance Of Virtue Compared With Learning

Once upon a time when Brahmadatta was reigning in Benares, the Bodhisatta was born in a brahmin family. And when he came of age, he acquired all arts at Takkasila, and on his return to Benares he went to see the king. the king offered him the post of family priest, and as he kept the five moral precepts, the king looked upon him with respect as a virtuous man, or as one devoted to the acquisition of learning ?”