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169. The Bodhisatta And The Fire God

Once on a time when Brahmadatta was reigning in Benares, the Bodhisatta was born a Brahmin.

In his sixteenth year they addressed him thus, “Son, on the day of your birth we lit a birth fire for you. Now therefore choose. If you wish to lead a family life, learn the Three Vedas; but if you wish to attain to the Brahma Realm, take your fire with you into the forest and there tend it, so as to win Maha Brahma’s favour and hereafter to enter into the Brahma Realm.”