[471] So ended the lesson which these verses taught. And the Great Being ruled his kingdom in righteousness, and abounded in charity and other good works till in the end he passed away to fare according to his deserts.

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His lesson ended, the Master identified the Birth by saying, "I was the prince of those days who went to Takkasila and won a kingdom."

Footnotes

^288:1 See pp. 78 and 79 of Volume I. of the text for the temptation. I have not been able to trace the Palobhana Sutta referred to.

^289:1 Apparently the reference is to No. . For a like confusion of title see note , <page 112>.

^289:2 Or is the meaning 'like the vault of heaven filled with thunder-clouds'? Cf. arnava in the Rigveda.

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