{"collection":"Khuddaka Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_thig5.9/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_thig5.9","id":"suttacentral_thig5.9","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/thig5.9/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Khuddaka Nikaya"],"text":"My hair plucked out, covered in mud, I used to wander wearing just one robe. I saw fault where there was none, and was blind to the actual fault. Leaving my day\u2019s meditation on Vulture\u2019s Peak Mountain, I saw the stainless Buddha at the fore of the mendicant Sa\u1e45gha. I bent my knee and bowed, and in his presence raised my cupped palms. \u201cCome Bhadd\u0101,\u201d he said; that was my ordination. \u201cI\u2019ve wandered among the A\u1e45gans and Magadhans, the Vajjis, K\u0101sis, and Kosalans. I have eaten the almsfood of the nations free of debt for fifty years.\u201d \u201cO! He has made so much merit! That lay follower is so very wise. He gave a robe to Bhadd\u0101, who is released from all ties.\u201d","title":"Bhadd\u0101 of the Curly Hair","tradition":"Khuddaka Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":123}