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| Six years after his attainment of Bodhi (emancipation) at Bodhgaya, Gautama Buddha was invited to visit Kapilavastu by his father. He travelled through Samath from Rajgriha and halted in the Nigrodha grove a short distance from the town of Kapilavastu. The following day the king was shocked to find him with his disciples begging from house to house in the street, and took them to the palace to be fed. On the same day Nanda, his half-brother and now the crown prince, became his disciple. His own son Rahula, who had by then grown up and turned into a young man, paid reverence to his father by also becoming a disciple along with several other citizens of Kapilavastu, and all of them entered into Lord Buddha's teaching orders. The king was left without an heir to the throne, since most of his family members had entered the ascetic order. He pathetically protested against the wholesale conversion, causing Buddha to stipulate that no Sakya youth be allowed to enter monastic life without their parent's permission. Having fulfilled his mission at Kapilavastu, Buddha set out for Rajgriha. On his way he halted for a short time at the mango grove of Anupiya where the six Sakya Princes-Bhaddiya, Anurudha, Ananda, Bhagu, Kimbila and Devadatta joined the order along with the barber Upali. Buddha, in order to teach humility to the Sakya princes, ordained Upali first. The above event has been sculpted in Nagarjunakonda, and entitled "The Admission of the Six Sakya Princes and Barber Upali into the Order" (3rd century AD). This sculpture shows the Buddha seated in the middle with his right hand in abhayamudra. On the right are the six Sakya princes, one of whom is being shaved by the barber Upali. On the left they are seen to be receiving their ordinations (P.D., 91:1956 fig.27). (Pl. # 63) | ||||||
The Conception of the Buddha Maya's Travel to Lumbini for Devadaha Birth of a Prince The Great Renunciation and Enlightenment The First Disciple The First Cermon Return to Kapilvastu The Last Days of Buddha Lumbini after the Death of the Buddha Asoka's Visit to Lumbini The Asokan Pillar of Lumbini Lumbini after Asoka's Visit Lumbini: the Archaoloqical Pursuits Early Explorations Dr.A.Fuhrer and Khadqa Shumsher Rana in Lumbini Babu Purna Chanda Mukherji in Lumbini General Kesher shumsher J.B Rana in Lumbini Mrs. Debala Mitra in Lumbini |
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