[289] With this invective against womankind, the young brahmin took leave of his parents, and renounced the world for the hermit's life,--wherein winning the peace he desired, he assured himself of admittance after that life into the Realm of Brahma.

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"So you see, Brother," said the Master, "how lustful, vile, and woe-bringing are women." And after declaring the wickedness of women, he preached the Four Truths, at the close whereof that Brother won the Fruit of the First Path. Lastly, the Master chewed the connexion and identified the Birth by saying,

"Kapilani was the mother of those days, Maha-Kassapa was the father, Ananda the pupil, and I myself the teacher."

Footnotes

^147:1 No. 527.

^150:1 Her history is given in J. R. A. S. 1893, page 786.

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