153., 154. Looking for the maker of this tabernacle, I shall have to run through a course of many births, so long as I do not find (him); and painful is birth again and again. But now, maker of the tabernacle, thou hast been seen; thou shalt not make up

[149. In the Rudrayanavadana of the Divyavadana this verse appears as,
Yanimany apariddhani vikshiptani diso disah,
Kapotavarnany asthini tani drishtvaiha ka ratih.
See Schiefner, Mel. Asiat. VIII, p. 589; Gataka, vol. i. p. 322.

150. The expression mamsalohitalepanam is curiously like the expression used in Manu VI, 76, mamsasonitalepanam, and in several passages of the Mahabharata, XII, 12462, 12053, as pointed out by Dr. Fausboll.

153, 154. These two verses are famous among Buddhists, for they are the words which the founder of Buddhism is supposed to have uttered at the moment he attained to Buddhahood. (See Spence Hardy, Manual; p. 180.) According to the Lalita-vistara, however, the words uttered on that solemn occasion were those quoted in the note to . In the commentary on the Brahmagala this verse is called the first speech of Buddha, his last speech being the words in the Mabaparinibbana-sutta, 'Life is subject to age; strive in earnest.' The words used in the Mahaparinibbana-sutta, Chap. IV, 2, Katunnam dhammanam ananubodha appativedha evam idam digham addhanam sandhavitam samsaritam maman k' eva tumhakan ka, answer to the anticipation expressed in our verse.