And with these words the jackal made off, nor did he ever again so much as look either at that or at any other elephant's carcass. And thenceforth he was never greedy again.

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His lesson ended, the Master said, "Brethren, never let desires take root in the heart but pluck them out wheresoever they spring up." [504] Having preached the Four Truths (at the close whereof those five hundred Brethren won Arahatship and the rest won varying lesser degrees of salvation), the Master identified the Birth as follows: "I was myself the jackal of those days."

Footnotes

^314:1 Or 'paved with crores.' See Vinaya, Cullav. vi. 4. 9, translated in S. B. E., Volume XX., page 188. Cf. also Jataka (text) I. 92.

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