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The Bodhisattva is a great sage, endowed with wisdom. Wisdom is the quality of nature that leads to Nirvana, namely wisdom. This wisdom is the enlightenment of the simple and special nature of the dhammas that the Bodhisattva has determined to hold with the mind of understanding in the way of compassion for all beings, called wisdom. Wisdom is divided into three types: the withdrawal of the mind from the tools and the children and the wife and making a judgment about the benefit and the harm of all beings, called wisdom 1. The withdrawal of the mind from the limbs and making a judgment is called wisdom 2. The withdrawal of the mind from the life and making a judgment about the benefit and the harm of all beings, called wisdom 3.
When the great sage, the great sage, was sitting in Jetavana, he was preaching the Dhamma of the great sages, saying, "The fivefold path, the whole army, etc." The Blessed One said, "Monks, in the past there was a king named Vidhehara, who ruled in the kingdom of Mithila, in the land of Vidhehara.
He had four wise men named Senaka, Bokkasa, Kaminda, and Devinda.
One day the king had a vision near dawn, saying, "There were four piles of fire in the four corners of the palace, burning as brightly as the great wall. In the middle of the four piles of fire, a fire the size of a lamp burned brighter than the four piles of fire, and its light spread to the four continents, so that all the gods and people, carrying their offerings, stepped on the pile and did not get burned." He called the four sages to ask. The four sages predicted that the fifth sage would be born today. At that time, in a district called Bachenvaya, east of Mithila, there was a wealthy man named Srivaddha and his wife named Somna Devi. Bodhisattva Jyotishta left the realm of the gods and was born into the family of this wealthy man. When he was born, Indra took a magic potion and placed it in the baby's hand. Somna Devi took the potion to her husband, who had been ill for seven years, and when he tasted it, the disease was cured. That is why his parents named him Mahosa.
Building a beautiful public place When Mahosa was seven years old, seeing the difficulties of children in general, including the difficulties of the locals, everywhere during the rainy and dry seasons there was no clean water to use. The Buddha asked 1,000 children to come and live in the monastery, each contributing 1 baht to build a beautiful public temple. After having enough resources, the Buddha drew up a plan to rent the land to the monks and people, and built 5 monasteries: 1 for merchants from near and far to stay, 1 for monks to teach their students, 1 for destitute women to give birth and for the general public to rest, 1 for meetings to discuss public affairs to serve the development of society, and 1 for children to play all kinds of games. All the monasteries were equipped with all kinds of equipment and facilities according to their needs, including beautiful paintings and statues. At the same time, the Buddha ordered 1,000 ponds to be dug, with ramps and dams to protect the surrounding area. In the pond, there were four kinds of lotuses, white lotuses, black lotuses, lotuses, lotuses, and lotuses, all of which were very beautiful and fruitful. In addition, the king ordered that a garden be prepared, with flowers and trees, giving off a sweet fragrance and a soft shade, like heaven, with places to sit and relax, and where the monks and brahmins could receive the Dharma in peace and harmony. After the construction of the temple, the place where the water source was provided, and the garden, people flocked to take advantage of it, and they praised the king as the supreme human being and as the one who gave all kinds of blessings every day and night. Even the animals benefited, which made the gods in the heavenly world also express their great blessings to the king.
After that, the king remembered the prophecy that the four wise men had given him, so he sent the amatra to go to the king. The king called the monk Senaka to ask, "Is it enough to go to the great sage to be a scholar?" The monk was jealous and afraid of losing his wealth, so he replied that people who knew how to build schools were not enough to be scholars. The king ordered the monk to continue testing the scholars. The monk accepted the king's invitation to test him 19 times, and in each test, he asked the king to bring the great sage to be a scholar, but the four monks kept opposing him. After a while, the king took the great sage to be the wisest in the kingdom and considered him his son. One day, the king saw a monkey hanging on the gate of the palace. He asked the great sage what this monkey was doing. The king said that it respected him. The king wanted Amata to buy meat for the elephant to eat every day. One day, it was a day of virtue. Amata searched for meat and could not find it, so he took the equivalent value of the meat and tied it around the neck of the elephant. The elephant was wearing jewelry and was arrogant and did not respect the king. The king was surprised and asked the Buddha. The Bodhisattva replied that it was disrespecting him. Hearing this, he became angry and ordered Amata to drive the elephant away from there. One day, the king went to the forest and saw a girl stuck in the top of a fig tree and could not get down because her husband, a Kalakanni, had taken a thorn from the pond and run away. The king was pleased, chose her and anointed her as his wife and named her Utumpura Devi. One day, he buried her on the royal chariot. She saw Benguttaramanapa clearing the grass and smiled. The king asked her what she was laughing at. She replied that she was laughing at her former husband. The king asked the monk Senaka. The monk replied that this woman had a secret problem.The king was angry and questioned the Bodhisattva. The Bodhisattva said that normally the unlucky do not share the same fate as the lucky ones. The king was pleased. At the same time, Princess Udumpur Devi also asked to take the Bodhisattva as the only brother of the nobles. The king also tested the wisdom of the four sages by creating a parable about animals: a goat whose back was broken and a dog whose leg was broken, which were considered friends. In order to ask the four sages, what kind of animal are the two animals with seven legs and one back? The four sages were unable to answer and went to ask the Bodhisattva. The Bodhisattva had the sage Senaka memorize that goats, had the sage Kaminda memorize that dogs, had the sage Devinda memorize that both are friends, and had the sage Bokusha memorize that both eat grass and meat, without understanding the meaning. The next morning, the king heard the answers of the four scholars, but he did not know what to say, and he asked the Buddha. The Buddha told him the story of the goat and the dog. Then he appointed the five scholars as the wise men of the kingdom. Udumpur Devi objected that the four scholars had gone to learn to solve the riddles from the Buddha, who could not attain the same status as the Buddha. Then the king raised other problems and asked the four scholars and the Buddha to solve them together. The Buddha defeated all the scholars. The king appointed the Buddha as the greatest scholar and the chief minister at that time and sacrificed 1,000 oxen, 10,000 elephants, 16,000 horses, and 16 acres of land to the Buddha. Princess Udumpur Devi thought that Mahasatha was sixteen years old and should be given as a wife to Mahasatha, but the Bodhisattva asked her to go and find a wife for herself. He saw Amarajya Thitakutta, a woman of the Five Noble Truths, and asked her about her wisdom. She learned that she was a wise woman and came to beg her to be his wife. The wealth that Amarajya received as a dowry, a vast amount of wealth, she divided into two: one part was distributed to the people and the other part was kept in the royal treasury. As for the four monks, they were constantly trying to find various ways to harm Mahasatha, but because the Bodhisattva and Amarajya were equally wise, they were able to solve all the problems of the four monks and were happy to ask for it. Mahasatha was the commander-in-chief of the army. The Bodhisattva tried to organize the kingdom to be prosperous. Mahasatha ordered the construction of a two-tiered wall around the kingdom. He sent officials to work with the kings of the 101 kingdoms to gather information in case any king wanted to invade other kingdoms. Mahasatha hired a wise monk named Madhur: he was very intelligent. He sent this monk to spy and learned that the monk Kevaddapra and the Chollani king Brahmadatta of the kingdom of Uddarupata intended to conquer the kings of the 101 kingdoms as vassals and bring his retinue to capture King Vitehara of the kingdom of Mithila, but this plan failed. The Chollani king sent a request to see Mahasatha to ask and discuss the Dharma with him. Mahasatha understood and led a thousand soldiers to the Dhamma Yudhishthira. The Bodhisattva knew that the Brahmin priest Kevadda wanted to be bowed down to declare his surrender, so he gave the monk the glass of the Maniyara. The Brahmin priest Kevadda bent down to receive the glass, but the king Mahosat grabbed his neck and pushed him, causing his face to fall to the ground, causing a lot of blood to flow. The Chollani were scattered by the king Mahosat, who threw their weapons and fled in fear. Mahosat sent a brahmin named Anukevadda Brahmin to learn secret magic and trick the soldiers of King Chollani Brahmadatta into wearing the Mahasattva's seal, and then accused them of being traitors to him and him. Anukevadda Brahmin took King Chollanilapa on horseback and fled all night, abandoned him in a secluded forest, and returned to the kingdom of Mithila. After that, the Brahmin Kevadda plotted to kill King Vitehara and Mahasatha instructed King Chollani to make a promise that he would offer Princess Utthana Chanthi as a royal daughter to King Vitehara. Mahasatha, knowing this plot, received intelligence from the Bodhisattva Sarika and ordered the preparation of a city called Upkarana in Kapila Province, on the banks of the Ganges River. Mahasatha asked the king to prepare a pavilion in the kingdom of Utthana for the coronation ceremony. King Chollani agreed to allow Mahasatha to prepare the palace, which was an opportunity, and prepared a secret place in the kingdom. The secret was that he had a tunnel dug to climb the steps of King Chollani's temple, which he had worked on secretly for four months. Mahasatha then asked King Vitehara to come and wait at the royal city of Upkarana near the Ganges River with four monks. At this moment, King Chollani thought that he had an opportunity to defeat King Vitehara and King Mahosa, so he sent his army out of the kingdom to besiege the city of Upkara. Taking advantage of the opportunity, the soldiers of the king who were hiding in a secret place (most Khmer people probably used to say the word "trench" to refer to a pit, ditch, or other cave. "Trench" is a loanword from the French word tranchée. Tranchée in French means a pit or a cave dug to hide in when bombed. In Khmer, there is also a word instead of the word "trench". The word is "trench" which means a cave that is built in a mountain, a cave, a place to hide, a cave. A cave, a place to hide, a cave dug to hide oneself in to protect oneself from danger. For example: The soldiers ran and hid in a trench.) They quietly rose up and captured the four royal family members: Nanda Devi, the great queen of King Chollani, 1 Princess Intrench, 1 daughter Intrench, 1 son Salak Devi, the mother of King Chollani, was taken and kept inside the palace walls of the city of Upkara. King Chollani, standing outside the walls, heard Nanda Devi crying and was deeply troubled. He wondered why she had come to cry in the kingdom of King Vitehara. When the army was at nightfall, King Chollani beat his drum and shouted loudly. King Vitehara and the four priests, not knowing what was happening, were frightened and ran away.He looked at her and begged the king to help him. The king ordered the army to press the key of the key to take the king of Vitehara, the four teachers, and the four royal family members of the Chollani king to walk through the land to the Mahavisala, the large hall, where he performed the royal consecration ceremony, and then had her taken on board 100 ships to the other side and continue to the kingdom of Mithila. When the next morning, the king of Chollani entered the new palace and saw that the king was still alone and had a fresh face, so he ordered the army to hold the king by the hands, feet, nose, and ears. The king of Chollani said, "If you let me hold my hands, feet, ears, and nose, then King Vitehara will let me hold the hands, feet, ears, and noses of the goddesses of the moon, the moon, and the moon, the goddess of the moon." The king of Chollani, having understood, asked, "Have you learned the magic of illusion?" The Buddha said that only a wise man in the world can free himself from the illusion of the world. Then the Bodhisattva took King Chollani and the 101 kings to a secret cave (a trench or cave dug in the ground or in a mountain as a solid path). The King Chollani praised the Bodhisattva's wisdom and vowed not to harm each other in the future. The kings of the 101 kingdoms also paid homage and expressed their gratitude to the Bodhisattva for giving them life. The Buddha told the kings of the 101 kingdoms stories from the past, stating that he had saved the lives of these kings many times, and that on one occasion, he had people throw over and break dishes and glasses at a banquet where King Chollani, who had believed, according to the Brahman Kevadda, wanted to eliminate all the kings in the universe and the continent by poisoning them. King Chollani also acknowledged his mistake towards the kings of the 101 kingdoms. King Chollani agreed to give all his royal property to Mahasatha, but the Bodhisatta refused. Then all the kings presented Mahasatha with gifts and escorted him to the kingdom of Mithila. Princess Utthanachanthi, who was with King Vitehara, had a son. When the son, Napotkhena, was ten years old, the king died.
Mahasatha appointed the son to succeed his father and asked him to stay in the kingdom of Utthana. Under his care, he made a vow with a concubine named Pheree. Then, Nanda Devi, who was angry, took him to the palace to tell her husband. After the king inquired whether the sage Mahosat and the nymph Pheri had made a good test of their wisdom, he granted them the status of Bodhisattva and the Supreme Commander. Pheri also asked the king about his sincere love for Mahosat. King Chollani said that since Mahosat came here, he had done many benefits to the kingdom. If I die first, Mahosat will bring happiness to all my children. Mahosat knows all kinds of benefits, both present and future. King Chollani was willing to give up the lives of his family and his own life, a total of six people, to the water demon, under the threat of not letting the water demon take Mahosat's life, because Mahosat is the embodiment of peace in the whole world. Read More
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