《Toh 333 (Kangyur)》
CBETA 84K-toh333
Homage to all buddhas and bodhisattvas! Thus did I hear at one time. The Blessed One was residing in Nyagrodha Park in Kapilavastu. Then, the great sage Kapila, while walking and wandering about for his daily exercise, deliberately proceeded to the place where the Blessed One was residing. After he made all manner of pleasing and polite conversation with the Blessed One, he sat down to one side. As the brahmin Vasiṣṭha sat down to one side, The unexplained shift from the sage Kapila to the brahmin Vasiṣṭha seems abrupt here. The text most obviously appears to imply that the great sage Kapila is out and about with others, perhaps his own followers, and one of them, a brahmin named Vasiṣṭha, proceeds with Kapila to where the Buddha is staying. This echoes the beginning of Sutta Nipāta 3.9 (cf. Majjhima Nikāya 98), in which we read that among the many brahmins who are staying at the Icchānaṅgala grove, two in particular—Vāseṭṭha and Bhāradvāja—while walking and wandering about for exercise, decide to approach the Buddha so that he can advise them on the question of true brahminhood. Alternatively, there is perhaps here a conflation of the two sages, Kapila and Vasiṣṭha. One might als…
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