leaves the household life and retires from the work, he will become a Buddha, and roll back the clouds of sin and folly of this world." The king asked "What shall my son see to make him retired from the world?" The Brahmans said "The four signs: A decrepit old man, a sick man, a dead man, and a monk." The king said "Let no such person be allowed to come near my son. It will never do for my son to become a Buddha. I wish to see my son exercising sovereign rule and authority." So the king placed guards around in order that none of these four kinds of men come within sight of his son. Twenty six years later, on a certain day, the go
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