Jesus In India — Page 151
APPENDIX Pages 134-135. He said of himself (Mahā-vagga 1. 6,8), — Ἱ am the all- subduer (sabbābhibhū); the all- wise; I have no stains; through myself I possess knowledge; I have no rival (patipuggalo); I am the chief Arhat— the highest teacher; I alone am the absolutely wise (Sambuddha); I am the Conqueror (Jina); all the fires of desire are quenched (sīti- bhūto) in me; I have Nirvāna (nibbuto). Page 135 (footnote). In fact Gautama remained a Bodhi- sattva until he was thirty-four or thirty-five, when he attained perfect enlightenment and Buddhahood. Page 126. 1. Kill not any living thing. 2. Steal not. 3. Commit not adultery. 4. Lie not. 5. Drink not strong drink. . . 6. Eat no food except at stated times. 7. Use no wreaths, orna- ments, or perfumes. 8. Use no high or broad bed, but only a mat on the ground. 9. Abstain from dancing, singing, music, and worldly spectacles. 10. Own no gold, or silver of any kind, and accept none. (Mahā-vagga 1. 56). [This Buddhist Decalogue may be contrasted with the Mosaic Decalogue. ] Pages 45-47. The Buddha's early disciples were not poor men; for the sixth to be admitted to the Sangha was a high-born youth named Yasa. . . In sending forth these sixty monks to proclaim his own gospel of deliverance, he addressed them thus:- 'I am delivered from all fetters (p. 127), human and divine. You too, O monks, are freed from the same fetters. 141