44. Q. What did he then do?
A. He sprang from his horse, cut off his beautiful hair with his sword, put on the yellow dress of an ascetic, and giving his ornaments and horse to Channa, ordered him to take them back to his father, the King.
45. Q. What then?
A. He went afoot towards Rājagrha, the capital city of King Bimbisāra, of Magadha.
46. Q. Who visited him there?
A. The King with his whole Court.[[3]]
46a. Q. Thence whither did he go?
A. To Uruvela, near the present Mahābōdhi Temple at Buddha Gayā.
47. Q. Why did he go there?
A. In the forests were hermits—very wise men, whose pupil he afterwards became, in the hope of finding the knowledge of which he was in search.