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Rh vihimsasaññî pagunam na bhâsi dhammam panîtam manugesu, Brahma; iti.

Then in prose: Atha kho Brahmâ Sahampati katâvakâso kho ’mhi bhagavatâ dhammadesanâyâ ’ti bhagavantam abhivâdetvâ padakkhiwaw katvâ tatth’ ev’ antaradhâyi.

The parallel passage in Lalita-vistara, p. 520, 19 seq., has:

Atha khalu Sikhî Mahâbrahmâ Tathâgatasyâdhivâsanâm viditvâ tushta udagra âttamanâ pramuditah prîtisaumanasyagâtas Tathâgatasya pâdau sirasâbhivanditvâ tatraivântaradhât.

At the meeting of the Âgîvaka monk Upaka and the Buddha, the latter is represented as having pronounced the following slokas (Mahâvagga I, 6, 8 and 9) :

Materially the same slokas, albeit in somewhat different arrangement, occur Lalita-vistara, p. 536, 22 seq., as being spoken at the same meeting:

âkâryo nahi me kaskit, sadriso me na vidyate, eko ’ham asmi sambuddhah, sîtibhûto nirâsravah. aham evâham loke sâstâ hy aham anuttarah, sadevâsuragandharve nâsti me pratipudgalah.