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219. The Bodhisatta And The Robbers

Once on a time when Brahmadatta was reigning in Benares, the Bodhisatta came to life as a Brahmin. Arriving at years of discretion, he became aware of the evils that spring from Lusts, and so forsook the world to live as a recluse in the country round the Himalayas. Need of salt and vinegar having led him to make a pilgrimage for alms through the countryside, he traveled in the course of his wandering with a merchant’s caravan. When the caravan halted at a certain spot in the forest, he paced to and fro at the foot of a tree, hard by the caravan, enjoying the bliss of insight.