Vimanavatthu6.6

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6.6 ALMSFOOD-GIVER'S MANSION (70)

(Bhikkadayaka-vimana)

The Bhagava(Lord Buddha) was staying at Rajagaha, in Bamboo Grove. At that time a certain monk who was going along a highroad entered a certain village for alms and halted at the door of a house. The inmate who had just washed his hands and feet and sat down to eat filled all his portion into the monk's bowl; after giving thanks he departed. The man in gladness thought, "I have given to a hungry monk and left myself fasting." Dying later, he was reborn among the Thirty-three(heaven) with twelve-yojana golden Mansion. The venerable Elder Monk Maha-Moggallana asked him:

1 "Lofty is this Mansion with jewelled shafts a dozen yojanas all around, there, are seven hundred splendid pinnacled halls and lovely pillars of beryl spread over with gleaming metal.

2 You, attained to the psychic potency(power) of devas(angels) are of great majesty. . . and your beauty illumines all the quarter?"

3 That deva(angel)-youth, delighted. . . of what deed this was the fruit(result).

4 "When I was born a human being among men, on seeing a monk who was hungry and weary, I offered and gave him then the only food that was in my possession.

5 Because of this is my beauty such. . . and my beauty illumines all the quarters(directions)."