:: 3. Conversion of Sopaka and Supply a, the Untouchables. ::
1. Sopaka was a pariah of Shravasti. In her travail at his birth his mother fell into a long deep swoon, so that her husband and kinsfolk said " She is dead!" And they bore her to the cemetery and prepared to cremate her body.
2. But on account of the storm of wind and rain the fire would not burn. So they went away leaving Sopaka‘s mother on the funeral pyre.
3. Sopaka's mother was not then dead. She died afterwards. Before her death she gave birth to a child.
4. The child was adopted by the watchman of the cemetery and was brought up by him along with his own child Suppiya. The child was known by the name of the community Sopaka to which its mother belonged.
5. The Blessed Lord one day happened to pass by the cemetery. Sopaka, seeing the Lord, approached him. After saluting the Lord he asked his permission to join him as his disciple.
6. Sopaka was then only seven years old. So the Lord asked him to obtain his father's consent.
7. Sopaka went and fetched his father. The father saluted the Lord and requested him to admit his son to the Order.
8. Notwithstanding that he belonged to the pariah community the Lord admitted him to the Order and instructed him in the doctrine and discipline.
9. Sopaka later became a Thera.
10. Suppiya and Sopaka had grown together from childhood and Sopaka having been adopted and brought up by Suppiya's father, Suppiya learned the Lord's doctrine and discipline from his companion, Sopaka, and requested Sopaka to admit him to the Order, although Sopaka belonged to a community which was lower in rank than the community to which Suppiya belonged.
11. Sopaka agreed and Suppiya, a member who belonged to the despised community whose occupation was to perform the duties of watchmen in the cemetery, became a Bhikku
1. Sopaka was a pariah of Shravasti. In her travail at his birth his mother fell into a long deep swoon, so that her husband and kinsfolk said " She is dead!" And they bore her to the cemetery and prepared to cremate her body.
2. But on account of the storm of wind and rain the fire would not burn. So they went away leaving Sopaka‘s mother on the funeral pyre.
3. Sopaka's mother was not then dead. She died afterwards. Before her death she gave birth to a child.
4. The child was adopted by the watchman of the cemetery and was brought up by him along with his own child Suppiya. The child was known by the name of the community Sopaka to which its mother belonged.
5. The Blessed Lord one day happened to pass by the cemetery. Sopaka, seeing the Lord, approached him. After saluting the Lord he asked his permission to join him as his disciple.
6. Sopaka was then only seven years old. So the Lord asked him to obtain his father's consent.
7. Sopaka went and fetched his father. The father saluted the Lord and requested him to admit his son to the Order.
8. Notwithstanding that he belonged to the pariah community the Lord admitted him to the Order and instructed him in the doctrine and discipline.
9. Sopaka later became a Thera.
10. Suppiya and Sopaka had grown together from childhood and Sopaka having been adopted and brought up by Suppiya's father, Suppiya learned the Lord's doctrine and discipline from his companion, Sopaka, and requested Sopaka to admit him to the Order, although Sopaka belonged to a community which was lower in rank than the community to which Suppiya belonged.
11. Sopaka agreed and Suppiya, a member who belonged to the despised community whose occupation was to perform the duties of watchmen in the cemetery, became a Bhikku
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