Vile Jataveda , here's the tail for you;
And think yourself in luck to get so much! [495]
The prime meat's gone; put up with tail to-day.

So saying the Great Being put the fire out with water and departed to become a recluse. And he won the Knowledges and Attainments, and ensured his re-birth in the Brahma Realm.

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His lesson ended, the Master identified the Birth by saying, "I was the ascetic who in those days quenched the fire."

Footnotes

^307:1 See (e.g.) Majjhima Nikaya, pp. 77-8, for a catalogue of ascetic austerities, to which early Buddhism was strongly opposed.

^308:1 See No. , <page 90>.

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