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"Donapaka Sutta: King Pasenadi Goes on a Diet" (SN 3.13),
translated from the Pali by Andrew Olendzki. Access to Insight (Legacy Edition), 2
November 2013,
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/sn/sn03/sn03.013.olen.html
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Once when the Buddha was living at Savatthi, King Pasenadi of
Kosala ate a whole bucketful of food, and then approached the
Buddha, engorged and panting, and sat down to one side. The Buddha,
discerning that King Pasenadi was engorged and panting, took the
occasion to utter this verse:
Now at that time the brahman youth Sudassana was standing
nearby, and King Pasenadi of Kosala addressed him: "Come now, my
dear Sudassana, and having thoroughly mastered this verse in the
presence of the Buddha, recite it whenever food is brought to me.
And I will set up for you a permanent offering of a hundred
kahaapanas every day." "So be it, your majesty," the
brahman youth Sudassana replied to the king.
Then King Pasenadi of Kosala gradually settled down to [eating]
no more than a cup-full of rice. At a later time, when his body had
become quite slim, King Pasenadi stroked his limbs with his hand
and took the occasion to utter this utterance: