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282. The Bodhisatta As Sage Kanha

Once upon a time when Brahmadatta ruled in Benares there was a childless Brahmin, having wealth to the amount of eighty crores, who took upon him the vows of virtue, and prayed for a son; in the womb of this brahmin’s wife was conceived the Bodhisatta, and from his black colour they gave him the name of Kanha – kumara young Blackie. He was sent by his father to Takkasila, where he learnt all the liberal arts, and returned again. Then his father provided a wife meet for him. And by and bye he came in for all his parents’ property.