When gladness fills the heart and fills the mind,
When righteousness is practised Peace to win,
He who so walks shall gain the victory
And all the Fetters utterly destroy.

And when the Master had thus led his teaching up to Arahatship as its crowning point, he shewed the connexion and identified the Birth by saying, "In those days I myself was the man who got the nugget of gold."

Footnotes

^140:1 Or perhaps ratanasasanam means 'the creed connected with the (Three) Gems,' viz. the Buddha, the Doctrine, and the Order.

^140:2 These are translated in Rhys Davids' "Buddhist Suttas," pp. 189-200.

^140:3 The Patimokkha is translated and discussed in Pt. I. of the translation of the Vinaya by Rhys Davids and Oldenberg (S. B. E. Vol. 13).

[j057]