Verse 35

³¹Bhagavan said: Having settled this in his mind, that best of the twice-born of Avanti loosened the knots of his heart, grew peaceable, and became a mendicant and a sage. ³²He walked over this earth with his self, his senses and his breath held in. For alms he went into cities and villages, attached to nothing and unnoticed. ³³When they saw that mendicant, far on in years and cast off from everything, bad men fell upon him, good sir, with many humiliations. ³⁴Some took his three staves, some his bowl and his water pot, some his seat, some his string of beads, some his patched cloak and his rags. ³⁵They gave them back, and then took them from the sage again, once they had been shown to him. And the food he had gathered by begging, as he ate it on a river bank,