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Being what he was, a monk of more than ordinary ascetical habits, he may have undertaken peculiar and difficult vows. The Sramanera, or in Chinese Shamei. See chap. xvi, note 19. East from here four yojanas, there is the place where the heir-apparent sent back Chandaka, with his white horse; and there also a tope was erected.
There a stone pillar was erected with an account of this event engraved upon it. This was on the night when Sakyamuni finally left his palace and family to fulfil the course to which he felt that he was called. Chandaka, in Pali Channa, was the prince's charioteer, and in sympathy with him. See M. B., pp. 158-161, and Davids' Manual, pp. 32, 33.
At the present day there are monks residing in it. This event is of recent occurrence; but in all the succession from that time till now, there has always been a Srâmanera head of the establishment. ~Where Buddha Renounced the World~ East from here four yojanas, there is the place where the heir-apparent sent back Chandaka, with his white horse; and there also a tope was erected.
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