[105] Thus did the Blessed One teach this lesson respecting Truth. And he went on to say: "What is called walking by truth, not only bestows the three happy endowments, the six heavens of the realms of sense, and the endowments of the higher Realm of Brahma, but finally is the giver of Arahatship [106]; whilst what is called walking by untruth entails re-birth in the four states of punishment or in the lowest castes of mankind." Further, the Master went on to expound in sixteen ways the Four Truths , at the close of which all those five hundred disciples were established in the Fruit of the First Path .

Having delivered his lesson and his teaching, and having told the two stories and established the connexion linking them together, the Master concluded by identifying the Birth as follows:--"Devadatta was the foolish young merchant. of those days; his followers were the followers of that merchant; the followers o the Buddha were the followers of the wise merchant, who was myself."

[Note. See Journal of the Ceylon Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 1847, where Gogerly has given a translation of this Jataka, as also of the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 6th, and 38th, with a brief introduction to the Jataka-book. See also page 108 of Hardy's Manual of Budhism, and Gogerly in the Ceylon Friend for August 1838. This Jataka is quoted in the Milinda-panho, p. 289 of Rhys Davids' translation in Vol. 35 of Sacred Books of the East. There is an Apannaka-Sutta in the Majjhima-Nikaya (No. 60), but it does not appear to be connected with this, the Apannaka-Jataka.]

Footnotes

^1:1 The canonical text of the Jataka book, which consists exclusively of gathas or stanzas, is divided into 'books,' or nipatas, according to the number of gathas. The present volume contains the 150 stories which illustrate, and form the commentary of, a single gatha in each ease, and compose the first book. The later books contain an increasing number of gathas and a decreasing number of stories: e.g. the second book contains 100 two-gatha stories, the third book 50 three-gatha stories, and so on. The total number of the books or nipatas is 22, 21 of which form the text of the five published volumes of the Pali text. The nipatas are subdivided into vaggas, or sets of about 10 stories, named as a rule after their first story. It has not been thought desirable to cumber the translation with these subdivisions.

^1:2 The Introductory Story usually begins by quoting, as a catchword, the first words of the subsequent gatha.