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Adapted from the Translation by T. W. Rhys Davids and Hermann Oldenberg
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MAHAVAGGA
FIRST KHANDHAKA(THE FORMATION OF THE ORDER OF BHIKKHUS)
Chapter-10 : Story of the Ordination of the Fifty Laymen, the Friends of Yasa.
Now fifty lay persons, friends of the venerable Yasa, belonging to the highest families in the country and to those next to the highest, heard, . . . . ( &c., as in chap. 9, §§ 1, 2, 3, 4, down to:). While they received exhortation and instruction from the Lord Buddha by discourse relating to the Dhamma, their minds became free from attachment to the world, and were released from the Asavas.
At that time there were sixty-one Arahats in the world.
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