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130. The Bodhisatta And His Grandfather
Once upon a time when Brahamadatta was reigning in Benares, there was a landowner and he had a son, namely Sujata. The Bodhisatta came to life as the son of Sujata. And they called him young Sujata. When he was grown up, his grand father died. Then his father from the day of the old mans death was filled with sorrow, and taking his bones from the place of cremation he erected an earth-mound in his pleasure-garden, and depositing the remains there, whenever he visited the place, adorned it with flowers and studiously lamented, neither bathing nor eating. Neither did he attend to his business. The Bodhisatta, on observing this, thought, “My father ever since the death of my grandfather goes about overwhelmed with grief. And no one, I am sure, except myself has power to console him. I will find a way to deliver him from his sorrow.”
