company, and having come up, he sat down to one side. As he was sittmg to one side, Sudinna, the Kalandaka,thought: "So far as I understand dhamma taught by the lord, it is no easy matter for one who lives in a house to lead the Brahma-life, complete and undefiled and polished like a conch-shell. What now if I were to cut off my hair and beard and don the yellow robes and go forth from home into homelessness?