After giving this command, the Bodhisatta seated himself with a cane in his hands. All the other eighty thousand monkeys too seated themselves round the lake, each with a cane in his hands. And at the same moment when the Bodhisatta sucked the water up through his cane, they all drank too in the same manner, as they sat on the bank. This was the way they drank, and not one of them could the water-ogre get; so he went off in a rage to his own habitation. The Bodhisatta, too, with his following went back into the forest.

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When the Master had ended his lesson and had repeated what he had said as to the hollowness of the canes being the result of a former ordinance of his own, he shewed the connexion, and identified the Birth by saying, "Devadatta was the water-ogre of those days; my disciples were the eighty thousand monkeys; and I was the monkey-king, so fertile in resource."

Footnotes

^54:1 In the Vinaya, (Cullav. v. 11), the Buddha is made to allow "the use of a needle-case made of bamboo."

^55:1 Literally "made a truth-act." If this is done with intention, a miracle instantly follows. Cf. No. &c.

^56:1 See Jataka No. 316, and Tawney's Katha-Sarit-Sagara, Vol. II. p. 66, where a number of passages bearing on this symbol are referred to, and Benfey's Panca-Tantra, i. 349. See also Cariya-Pitaka, <page 82>.

^56:2 No. .

^56:3 See the (unpublished) Ghatikara Sutta (No. 81 of the Majjhima Nikaya), Dhammapada, p. 349, and Milinda-panha, p. 222.

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