How did Upagupta assure that he was there to serve the people?
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Upagupta is a disciple of Buddha, and goes from one place to another. He is sleeping in a small town when a dancing girl wakes him up and requests him to sleep at her home. Upagupta refuses, and tells her “I will visit you when the time is ripe.”.
A year later, and again on travel to the same place, Upagupta finds the dancing girl lying on the ground outside the town, having sores all over the body and shunned by the townsfolk. He applies balm on her body and when asked who he was, he replies “The time has come to visit you and I am here.”
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Upagupta served as a spiritual adviser of the great emperor Ashoka. In the Lokapannatti Upagupta is sent by Ashoka to tame Mara during an enshrinement ceremony festival, after words he asks her to take the physical form (rupakaya) of Buddha so that everyone at the festival can see what Buddha looked like.
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