This tale ended, the Master became perfectly enlightened and uttered the following stanzas:--

"Wherever sun and moon their courses run
All are Mandhata's servants, every one:
Where'er earth's quarters see the light of day,
There king Mandhata holds imperial sway.

"Not though a rain of coins fall from the sky
Could anything be found to satisfy.
Pain is desire, and sorrow is unrest:
He that knows this is wise, and he is blest.

"Where longing is, there pleasure takes him wings,
Even though desire be set on heavenly things.
Disciples of the Very Buddha try
To crush out all desire eternally."

[314] When the Master had ended this discourse, he declared the Four Truths, and identified the Birth:--at the conclusion of the Truths the back-sliding Brother and many others attained to the Fruit of the First Path:--"At that time, I was the great king Mandhata."

Footnotes

^216:1 See Divyavadana, p. 210; Thibetan Tales, p. 1-20, King Mandhatar. This king is named as one of the four persons who have attained in their earthly bodies to glory in the city of the gods; Milinda, iv. 8. 25 (ii. p. 145 in the trans., S. B. E.).

^218:1 See Dhammapada, verses 186 and 187, which are the last two of these stanzas.

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