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2"O learned brahmin," etc.—This story the Master told in
Jetavana, about the giving of all the requisites. At Sāvatthi,
it is said, a certain lay brother having heard the Tathāgata's
discourse, being pleased at heart, gave an invitation for the
morrow; at his door he set up a pavilion, richly dight, and sent
to say that it was time. The Master came attended by five
hundred Brethren, and sat in the gorgeous seat appointed for
him. The layman, having made rich presents to the company of
Brethren headed by the Buddha, bade them again for the morrow;
and so for seven days he invited them, and offered gifts, and on
the seventh gave them all a Brother's requisites. In this
presentation he offered a special gift of shoes. The pair of
shoes offered to the Buddha were worth a thousand pieces of
money, those offered to the two Chief Disciples 3 were worth
five hundred, and shoes to the value of an hundred were given to
each of the five hundred Brethren wh