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XXVIII THE LIFE OF GAUTAMA BUDDHA

spread, “like the sound of a great bell hung in the canopy of the skies.” But it brought him no sense of truth achieved. One day he was walking up and down, trying to think in spite of his enfeebled state. Suddenly he fell unconscious. When he recovered, the preposterousness of these semi-magical ways to wisdom was plain to him.

THE DHAMÊKH TOWER
THE DHAMÊKH TOWER In the Deer Park at Sarnath. Sixth Century A.D. (From a Painting in the India Museum)

He horrified his companions by demanding ordinary food and refusing to continue his mortifications. He had realized that whatever truth a

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