Buddha
Title: Buddha
Category: /Society & Culture/Religion
Details: Words: 2680 | Pages: 10 (approximately 235 words/page)
Buddha
Category: /Society & Culture/Religion
Details: Words: 2680 | Pages: 10 (approximately 235 words/page)
BIRTH
In times long past, fully twenty-five hundred years ago, where are now the border-lands between Nepal and the northern parts of the provinces of Oudh and North Bihar, there were a number of little kingdoms inhabited by different races of people, each ruled over by its own Raja or King. One of these little kingdoms which lay some distance north of the present-day town of Gorakhpore, on the north side of the river Rapti,
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to the one who saved its life. Let the swan be given to Siddhattha." All the others in the council agreed with these wise words, and Prince Siddhattha was allowed to keep the swan whose life he thus had saved. And he cared for it tenderly until it was quite cured of its wound; then he set it free and let it fly back once more well and happy to its mates on the forest-lake.
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