Gotama Buddha : a Biography, Based On the Canonical Books of the Theravādin
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" 6 Hither would come to him kings and their retinues, and other lay people, or Brahmins and religious teachers who had heard of his fame, and on moonlight nights when the Indian air is fragrant with the blossoms of flowering trees and solemn with the march of the stars, they would sit enthralled by his discourse on the eternal verities. But if any proved obstinate Gotama would harry him remorselessly till he capitulated, cross-examining him like Socrates until, as we are told, in several passa...ges, the sweat poured from the luck- less man; for Gotama could be surgeon as well as physician. And often the patient would kiss the hand that wielded the knife ! At other times the Sangha might be seen pacing with down- cast eyes amongst the villages of Magadha and Kosala, giving in return for their daily food the teaching of the Law, which we are reminded again and again is "the greatest of gifts. " On the advice of Bimbisara, Gotama appointed the eighth, the fourteenth, or the fifteenth and the sixteenth days of each "Oldenberg, "Buddha, " E.
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