[173] When the Master had ended this story, he added, "Great King, one should not be under the power of desire. Two religious persons ought not to quarrel together." Then he identified the Birth:--"In those days, I was the leader of the sages."

When the king had entertained the Buddha, and he had departed, the king sent some men and had the rival settlement destroyed, and the sectaries became homeless.

Footnotes

^118:1 This appears to be a regular formula; the Sanskrit equivalent occurs in Divyavadana, p. 91.

^119:1 Sariputta and Moggallana.

^120:1 One of the Abhinnas or Supernatural Faculties; see above.

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