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115. The Bodhisatta Admonishing Kassapa

Once upon a time when Brahmadatta reigned in Benares, the Bodhisatta came to life in a brahmin family in a town of the Kasi country. When he was grownup, his mother died. And after due performance of her funeral rites, at the end of six weeks he gave away in alms all the money that was in the house, and taking his father and younger brother with him he put on the bark garment, and adopted the religious life of an ascetic in the Himalayas. And there he lived in a pleasant grove, supporting himself by gleaning in the fields and living on roots and wild fruits.