When he had ended his lesson to the effect that the Brother had thus in bygone days been brought to his doom by that young woman and had been made into a relish for the company [198], he preached the Truths, at the close whereof the passion-tost Brother reached the First Path of Salvation. Also the Master shewed the connexion and identified the Birth by saying, "The passion-tost Brother was the pig Munika of those days, the young woman is the same in both cases, Ananda was Little Red, and I myself Big Red."

[Note. See hereon Benfey's Panca-Tantra, page 228, where the migrations of this popular story are traced. See also Jatakas Nos. 286 and 477.]

Footnotes

^75:1 No. 477.

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