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Devdutt Pattanaik: The end of the Buddha's clan
Updated On: 01 April, 2018 06:49 AM IST | Mumbai | Devdutt Pattanaik
The Buddha and his followers used to always eat one meal in the house of a layman
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The Buddha and his followers used to always eat one meal in the house of a layman. King Pasenadi of Kosala asked the Buddha how a monk chose a house to eat at. The Buddha replied that it will be a house that one trusts. The king then asked what house does one trust. And the Buddha replied, family. To make himself trustworthy, Prasenadi felt he had to become a member of the Buddha's family, and so he approached the Sakya clan and asked them for a bride. They were reluctant but he was persistent. So he was tricked into accepting a girl named, Vasabhakkhattiya, whose father, Mahanama, was Sakyan, but the mother was a slave girl.
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