{"collection":"Khuddaka Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_thag7.3/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_thag7.3","id":"suttacentral_thag7.3","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/thag7.3/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Khuddaka Nikaya"],"text":"I was an only child, loved by my mother and father. They had me by practicing many supplications and observances. Out of sympathy for me wishing me well and wanting the best for me, my mother and father took me to see the Buddha. \u201cWe had this son with difficulty; he is delicate and pampered. We offer him to you, Lord, to attend upon the victor.\u201d The teacher, having accepted me, declared to \u0100nanda: \u201cQuickly give him the going-forth\u2014 this one will be a thoroughbred!\u201d After he, the Teacher, had sent me forth, the victor entered his dwelling. Before the sun set my mind was freed. Consequently, the Teacher didn\u2019t neglect me; when he came out from seclusion, he said: \u201cCome Bhadda!\u201d That was my ordination. At seven years old I received ordination. I\u2019ve attained the three knowledges; oh, the clear rightness of the teaching!","title":"Bhadda","tradition":"Khuddaka Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":145}