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The Book of Ser Marco Polo : vol.2 |
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the second to the capital of Gandhára ; the third to Kalinga ; the fourth to the snake-
gods. The Gandhára tooth was
perhaps, like the alms-bowl,
carried off by a Sassanid invasion,
and may be identical with that
tooth of Fo, which the Chinese
annals state to have been brought
to China in A.D. 530 by a Persian
embassy. A tooth of Buddha is
now shown in a monastery at Fu-
chan ; but whether this be either
the Sassanian present, or that got
from Ceylon by Kúbláï, is un-
known. Other teeth of Buddha
were shown in Hiuen Tsang's
time at Balkh, at Nagarahára (or
Jalálábád), in Kashmir, and at
Kanauj. (Koeppen, u. s. ; For-
tune, II. 108 ; H. Tsang, II. 31,
80, 263.)
Note 7.—Fa-hian writes of
the alms-pot at Pesháwar, that
poor people could fill it with a
few flowers, whilst a rich man
should not be able to do so with
100, nay, with 1000 or 10,000
bushels of rice ; a parable doubt-
less originally carrying a lesson,
like Our Lord's remark on the
widow's mite, but which hardened
eventually into some foolish story
like that in the text.
The modern Mussulman story at Kandahar is that the alms-pot will contain any
quantity of liquor without overflowing.
This Pátra is the Holy Grail of Buddhism. Mystical powers of nourishment are
ascribed also to the Grail in the European legends. German scholars have traced in
the romances of the Grail remarkable indications of Oriental origin. It is not im-
possible that the alms-pot of Buddha was the prime source of them. Read the pro-
phetic history of the Pátra as Fa-hian heard it in India (p. 161) ; its mysterious
wanderings over Asia till it is taken up into the heaven Tushita, where Maitreya the
Future Buddha dwells. When it has disappeared from the Law gradually
perishes, and violence and wickedness more and more prevail :
—— " What is it ?
The phantom of a cup that comes and goes?
If a man
Could touch or see it, he was heal'd at once,
By faith, of all his ills. But then the times
Grew to such evil that the holy cup
Was caught away to Heaven, and disappear'd."
— Tennyson's Holy Grail.
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