{"collection":"Buddhism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bud/sbe17/sbe17044.htm","path":"bud/sbe17/sbe17044.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bud/sbe17/sbe17044.htm","text":"1. Now the courtezan Ambap\u00e2l\u00ee heard that the Blessed One had arrived at Kotig\u00e2ma. And the courtezan Ambap\u00e2l\u00ee ordered a number of magnificent vehicles to be made ready, mounted one of these vehicles, and left Ves\u00e2l\u00ee with her magnificent vehicles in order to visit the Blessed One. She\nwent in the carriage as far as the ground was passable for carriages; there she alighted; and she proceeded on foot to the place where the Blessed One was. Having approached him and respectfully saluted the Blessed One, she sat down near him.\n2. When she was sitting near him, the Blessed One taught, incited, animated, and gladdened the courtezan Ambap\u00e2l\u00ee by religious discourse. And the courtezan Ambap\u00e2l\u00ee, having been taught, &c., by the Blessed One by religious discourse, said to the Blessed One: 'Might the Blessed One, Lord, consent to take his meal with me to-morrow together with the fraternity of Bhikkhus.'\nThe Blessed One expressed his consent by remaining silent.\nThen the courtezan Ambap\u00e2l\u00ee, when she understood that the Blessed One had accepted her invitation, rose from her seat, respectfully saluted the Blessed One, and, passing round him with her right side towards him, went away.\n3. Now the Likkhavis of Ves\u00e2l\u00ee heard that the Blessed One had arrived at Kotig\u00e2ma. And the Likkhavis of Ves\u00e2l\u00ee ordered a number of magnificent vehicles to be made ready, mounted these vehicles, and left Ves\u00e2l\u00ee with their magnificent vehicles in order to visit the Blessed One. Some of the Likkhavis were dark, dark in colour, and wearing dark clothes and ornaments; some of them. were fair, fair in colour, and wearing light clothes and ornaments; some of them were red, ruddy in colour, and wearing red clothes and ornaments; some of them were white, pale in colour, and wearing white colours and ornaments. And the courtezan Ambap\u00e2l\u00ee drove up against the young\n[paragraph continues] Likkhavis, pole to pole, yoke to yoke, wheel to wheel, axle to axle. [4.] And those Likkhavis said to the courtezan Ambap\u00e2l\u00ee: 'How is it, Ambap\u00e2l\u00ee, that you drive up against the young Likkhavis, pole to pole, &c.?'\nMy Lords, I have just invited the Blessed One with the fraternity of Bhikkhus for their morrow's meal.'\n'Ambap\u00e2l\u00ee! give up this meal to us for a hundred thousand.'\n'My Lords, were you to offer all Ves\u00e2l\u00ee with its subject territory, I would not give up this meal.' Then the Likkhavis snapped their fingers (exclaiming), 'We are outdone by this woman 1! we are out-reached by this woman 1!'\n4. Then the Likkhavis went to the place where the Blessed One was. And the Blessed One saw the Likkhavis coming from afar; when he saw them, he addressed the Bhikkhus and said: 'O Bhikkhus, let those of the Bhikkhus who have never seen the T\u00e2vatimsa gods, gaze upon this company of the Likkhavis, behold this company of the Likkhavis, compare this company of the Likkhavis, even as a company of T\u00e2vatimsa gods!' And the Likkhavis went in the carriages as far as the ground was passable for carriages (&c., as in \u00a7\u00a7 1, 2, down to:) 'Might the Blessed One, Lord, consent to take his meal with us to-morrow together with the fraternity of Bhikkhus.'\n'I have promised, O Likkhavis, to dine to-morrow with Ambap\u00e2l\u00ee the courtezan.'\n5. And the Blessed One, after having dwelt at Kotig\u00e2ma as long as he thought fit, went to \u00d1\u00e2tik\u00e2. There the Blessed One dwelt at \u00d1\u00e2tik\u00e2, in the Brick Hall (Gi\u00f1gak\u00e2vasatha). And when the night had elapsed, the courtezan Ambap\u00e2l\u00ee ordered in her park excellent food (&c., as in chap. 28. 10 1, down to:) she sat down near him. Sitting near him the courtezan Ambap\u00e2l\u00ee said to the Blessed One: 'I give up this Ambap\u00e2l\u00ee grove, Lord, to the fraternity of Bhikkhus with the Buddha at its head.' The Blessed One accepted the \u00c2r\u00e2ma. Then the Blessed One, after having taught, incited, animated, and gladdened the courtezan Ambap\u00e2l\u00ee by religious discourse, rose from his seat and went to the Mah\u00e2vana. There the Blessed One dwelt at Ves\u00e2l\u00ee, in the Mah\u00e2vana, in the K\u00fbt\u00e2g\u00e2ra-s\u00e2l\u00e2.\n_______________\nEnd of the Likkhavi Bh\u00e2nav\u00e2ra.\n107:1 Ambak\u00e2ya, which Buddhaghosa explains by itthik\u00e2ya, comp. the well-known Mantra, V\u00e2gasaneyi Samhit\u00e2 23. 18: Ambe ambike \u2019mb\u00e2like, &c. Probably the word ambak\u00e2 is a contemptuous form intended here at the same time to convey an allusion to the mango- (amba-) gardens which Ambap\u00e2l\u00ee possessed, and from which she was named. Comp. Rh. D.'s note at Mah\u00e2parinibb\u00e2na Sutta II, 19.\n108:1 Replace 'the Magadha ministers Sun\u00eedha and Vassak\u00e2ra' by the courtezan Ambap\u00e2l\u00ee,' and instead of 'Reverend Gotama,' read 'Lord.'","title":"SBE 17: Sixth Khandhaka: Chapter 30","type":"page"}