Word: guatama
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Dates: during 1925-1925
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Gautama had been married at 19 to a beautiful cousin. When she was delivered of his first-born son, his village held a great feast and a nautch dance, but late in the night when the torches were out, Guatama awoke in great agony of spirit, "like a man who is told that his house is on fire." He stepped through the vestibule where the nautch girls were lying in darkness striped like a tiger's skin with moonlight. He called for his horses and rode away...
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