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A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms

Note 5 — Chapter XXII · KAPILAVASTU. ITS DESOLATION. LEGENDS OF BUDDHA’S BIRTH, AND OTHER INCIDENTS IN CONNEXION WITH IT.

James Legge translation

(5) In Hardy’s M. B., pp. 154, 155, we read, “As the prince (Siddhartha, the first name given to Sâkyamuni; see Eitel, under Sarvarthasiddha) was one day passing along, he saw a deva under the appearance of a leper, full of sores, with a body like a water-vessel, and legs like the pestle for pounding rice; and when he learned from his charioteer what it was that he saw, he became agitated, and returned at once to the palace.” See also Rhys Davids’ “Buddhism,” p. 29.

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