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Click to Expand/Collapse OptionIntroduction
Click to Expand/Collapse OptionSpread of the Christian faith to India (1)
Click to Expand/Collapse OptionKing Abenner of India, his childlessness and persecution of Christian monks
Click to Expand/Collapse OptionOne of the King’s servents becomes Christian and the King upbraids him in a dialogue (2)
Click to Expand/Collapse OptionThe servant’s sermon: Rage and Greed are our worst enemies
Click to Expand/Collapse OptionThe servant explains why he became a monk
Click to Expand/Collapse OptionThe King had decided to torture the servant to death, but instead chases him away
Click to Expand/Collapse OptionA most beautiful son is born to the King
Click to Expand/Collapse OptionVice men phrophecy that the son will be not a King of this world, but another, and will be Christian (3)
Click to Expand/Collapse OptionThe King places his son in a palace in luxurious isolation from all the suffering of the world
Click to Expand/Collapse OptionThe King’s formost and most noble servant brings home a sick man from the hunt; but he is a Christian, and the other servants plot against him before the King (4)
Click to Expand/Collapse OptionThe sick man advices the nobleman how to cope with the King’s rage, and the King forgives him, but continues his persection of Monks
Click to Expand/Collapse OptionOut hunting, the King meets monks, talks with them and then burns them
Click to Expand/Collapse OptionThe Prince wonders why he cannot go out of the palace, and one of his teachers then says that it is because the King does not want him to hear about Christian teachings (5)
Click to Expand/Collapse OptionThe Prince asks the King to go out, and he is allowed to go to places which are only pleasant.
Click to Expand/Collapse OptionThe Prince sees a leper and a blind, and becomes very depressed
Click to Expand/Collapse OptionThe Prince sees an old and crippled man on the next trip out, and is told he soon will die, as humans will
Click to Expand/Collapse OptionThe Prince goes home and reflect on death, in sorrow
Click to Expand/Collapse OptionBy the calling of the Holy Spirit the monk Barlaam seeks admission to the prince as a trader, with the pretext of selling him a jewel
G.R. Woodward, H. Mattingly, 1914, p. 50,1
οὐ μέντοι οὐδὲ τῷ παιδὶ διέλαθε. πάσῃ γὰρ συνέσει κατάκομον ἔχων ἐκεῖνος τὸν λογισμόν, ἐσκόπει καθ' ἑαυτὸν τίνι λόγῳ αὐτόν τε ἀπρόϊτον εἶναι ὁ πατὴρ κατεδίκασε καὶ παντὶ τῷ βουλομένῳ τὴν εἰς αὐτὸν οὐ συγχωρεῖ εἴσοδον.
Jacobus Billius Prunaeus, 1577 A.D., Migne no. 73, col. 457a1
Itaque ne pueri quidem cognitionem effugit. Nam cum animum summa sagacitate ornatum et instructum haberet, secum ipse considerabat quidnam patrem adduxisset ut ipsi omnium aditum interdiceret, nec quemlibet ad se accedere pateretur.
G.R. Woodward, H. Mattingly, 1914
Nor did it to this boy; for his mind was fertile of wit, and he would reason within himself, why his father had condemned him never to go abroad, and had forbidden access to all.
Holm perg. 6 fol. 2ra23-29
(23) Miok vndraðe sueinninn (24) hui er faðer hans villdi alldrigi (25) lata hann vt koma. (26) ser til skemtanar. sem (27) aðra vnga menn. eða hui (28) er hann lovaðe sua fam mannum. (29) inn at ganga til hans
H.E.Kinck, 1852 p. 20,1
Drengen undrede sig meget, hvorfor hans Fader aldrig vilde lade ham komme ud at more sig som andre unge Mennesker, og hvorfor han tillod saa faa Mennesker at gaa ind til ham.
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