Vimanavatthu5.9

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5.9 SECOND NEEDLE MANSION (59)

(Dutiya-Suci-vimana)

The Bhagava(Lord Buddha) was staying at Rajagaha, in Bamboo Grove. Now a certain tailor went to see the Grove, there saw a monk stitching a robe with a needle that was made in Bamboo Grove and gave him needles with his needlecase. The question put to the tailor after he had been reborn among the Thirty-three(heaven) was like the previous.

1-5 (As in 54. 1-5)

6 "When in a former birth I was born a human being among men in the world of men I saw a monk without defilements, serene in mind, without confusion, to whom I, gladly, gave a needle with my own hands.

7 Because of this is my beauty such. . . and my beauty illumines all the quarters(directions)." (As in I.6,7 etc.)