From the Island Owner to the King

The information on the slate is also recorded in the Buddhist classic "The Great Nirvana Sutra".

However, the "Great Nirvana Sutra" was written in the 2nd to 3rd centuries.

The ancient writing on the slate was engraved in the 4th and 5th centuries BC, 6 to 700 years earlier than the Great Nirvana Sutra.

The information recorded on the slate should be more accurate. According to the comparison with the slate, there are some errors and omissions in the passage of the Buddha's Nirvana in the Great Nirvana Sutra.

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After the king who obtained the Buddha's relics, he built a stupa to house and provide for these Buddha's relics. :pig:pig:island:fiction 3w.o

Chen Rui got 4 statues of Buddha, 3 statues of Bodhisattva, and 4 stones from the stupa built by Visali at that time.

the next day.

Chen Rui came to the place where Falkland Road was yesterday.

The stall owner has been waiting here for a long time. If Chen Rui did not promise the 300,000 rupees yesterday, he would definitely not be able to meet him here today. India is not a trustworthy nation.

The stall owner said, "Hey, you're finally here, I've been waiting for you for a long time, let's go, my family lives in the suburbs, it's far from here, and it takes 2 hours to ride a motorcycle." After that, he walked to a motorcycle Before getting on the motorcycle, he started the motorcycle and drove in front of Chen Rui, saying, "Get in the car, I'll take you there."

Chen Rui said, "No, let's take a taxi, I'll pay the fare, and your motorcycle will stay here."

"Okay." The stall owner happily agreed.

Chen Rui stopped a taxi.

The two got into a taxi.

The stall owner gave the taxi a place name.

In the car, Chen Rui briefly chatted with the stall owner.

Only then did Chen Rui know the name of the stall owner, Moraba Sisi.

Ceci. . A relatively common surname. It is the intention of the shipper.

Looking at the caste by surname, Chen Rui guessed that Morabah Sisi's caste is Vaishya, the third level of the Indian caste hierarchy. This part of the people includes ordinary Aryans engaged in agriculture, animal husbandry and business.

Guessing should be more accurate.

Because India is a country with a very serious hierarchy, everyone determines the noble and lowly status from birth.

From Brahman, Kshatriya, Vaishya to Sudra, with the further differentiation of society. Caste is formed into a system, Brahmins are solely responsible for religious affairs, and some of them participate in political affairs, forming a sacrificial class, occupying the highest level in the caste.

The second rank in the caste is the kshatriya, the warrior class who holds the military and political power.

Ordinary Aryans engaged in agriculture, animal husbandry and commerce are called Vaishyas and they are the third rank in the caste.

The lowest caste class is Sudra,

The Code of Manu stipulates that senior castes can engage in occupations of lower castes due to "poverty", while lower castes are not allowed to engage in occupations of higher castes, and men of higher castes can marry women of lower castes because of "greed"; on the contrary. Men of lower castes may not marry women of higher castes. The former is called "shun marriage" and the latter is called "reverse marriage".

After India's independence, the caste system was abolished, and the constitution expressly prohibits class discrimination, but Indian society still retains the remnants of the caste system, which has left a deep imprint on every Indian. In fact, the highest caste hierarchy Brahmins account for less than 4% of the population, but they occupy 70% of the judicial power and nearly half of the parliamentary seats.

Rental to the village of Morabah Sisi.

Morabah Sisi's ancestor may have been a businessman, but now he is a farmer, but, is there a difference? Farmers and merchants belong to the Vaishya class.

After getting off the taxi, Chen Rui paid the fare.

Morabah Sisi brought Chen Rui into the village.

At noon, Morabah Sisi's family served Chen Rui with pilaf, curry potatoes, curry fish, curry mutton, and pilaf.

After eating, rest for a while.

Morabah Sisi took Chen Rui to dig out the stone Buddha statues and slates.

This is a small hillside where potatoes and peanuts are planted.

Morabah Sisi said that this hillside is the land of their family, and the potatoes and peanuts on it are grown by their family.

The stone Buddha statues, the stone statues of Bodhisattva, and the stone slabs were dug out when he was digging the aqueducts.

Chen Rui turned around the hillside for a while, and suddenly he knew what to do.

The surrounding pagoda bricks half-buried in the soil, a corner of the stairs exposed, and the pagoda base buried in the soil, all of which indicate that this is the stupa built by the Visali Kingdom to worship the Buddha Sakyamuni Buddha's relic.

Around 3 pm, Chen Rui left here and paid Morabah Sisi 400,000 rupees.

In the evening, Chen Rui came here again.

Escape into the ground.

The foundation of the relic, the tower bricks buried in the soil, and the steps are nowhere to be seen in Chen Rui's eyes.

Chen Rui found more than a dozen slates in the ground that were the same as the four in Chen Rui's hands. These slates guessed that they should be part of the stupa stone tablet, which recorded some stories about the stupa and the deeds of the Buddha's relic.

Chen Rui continued to walk through the ground of the stupa. Suddenly, he found that he had penetrated the soil layer and came to an underground space.

This should be the secret room of the underground palace of the stupa. Chen Rui just penetrated the soil layer to reach the first door of the underground palace.

Chen Rui took out a flashlight, the light of the flashlight shone on the door of the underground palace, and a relief of a male lion was clearly visible on the door.

Chen Rui cautiously pushed open the secret door of the underground palace, and a musty smell came to his face. Inside the door was a dark tunnel. The walls were spliced ​​with black marble. Because of the age, the stone walls showed a unique mottle. Chen Rui made a new discovery. There are words engraved on the stone wall, and the words are engraved.

At the end of the tunnel, two stone tablets entered Chen Rui's line of sight. The stone tablets were made of black marble, and the inscriptions were still clearly legible under the flashlight. Like the text on the four stone tablets before, Chen Rui didn't know the text on them.

Chen Rui removed the stone tablet.

Another door appeared in front of Chen Rui's eyes. On the left and right sides of the stone door, there was a beautiful statue of Bodhisattva carved on each side.

Chen Rui gently opened the door.

After entering the door, the ground is covered with precious stones such as gold, silver, agate, pearl, amber stone, malachite, turquoise.

At the end of the front room, a white marble tower stands quietly in a corner, about 80 cm high, with exquisite painted reliefs on all sides. The tower cover, tower brake, tower body and tower base are well preserved.

Chen Rui found another stone gate behind the white marble pagoda, and there must be a secret room behind the gate.

Chen Rui opened the third door of the underground palace. There was a square space behind the door. The scene inside shocked Chen Rui. It was filled with cultural relics, gold, silver, and precious stones. The white jade tent is very finely carved, and there is a secret niche.

There is a package hidden in the secret alcove with a treasure letter inside. (To be continued.)