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This Life Next Life 80 80 'In your gift, sir, such food as gruel and broken meats are given which you, sir, would not touch with your foot, much less eat; also coarse ball - fringed robes which you, sir, would not deign to use as carpets, much less to wear. You, sir, are pleasant and dear to us ; how are we to associate what is pleasant and dear with what is unpleasant? 'Well then, my dear Uttara, do you arrange that such food shall be given as I eat, and such garments be given as I wear. ' Very good, sir, ' replied Uttara, and did so¹³. Now prince Payasi, inasmuch as he had bestowed his gift without thoroughness, not with his own hands, without due thought, as something discarded, was, after his death, reborn into the communion of the Four Great Kings14, in the empty mansion of the Acacia. But the youth Uttara, who had objected to that gift and had bestowed his gift thoroughly, with his own hands, with due thought, not as something discarded, was, after his death, reborn in a bright and happy world, into the communion of the Three - and - Thirty Gods. 13 Apparently at his own cost. 14 The guardian spirits of the four quarters. See the Introduction to the Maha samaya Suttanta. ( Sutta - in Pali ) -