When this the king heard, he said, "That is true; Belly-messengers are these; urged by lust they go to and fro, and lust makes them go. How prettily this man has put it!" he was pleased with him, and uttered the third stanza:--

"Brahmin, a thousand red kine I present
To thee; thereto the bull, for complement.
One messenger may to another give;
For Belly's messengers are all that live."

So said the king; and continued, "I have heard something I never heard before, or thought of, said by this great man." And so pleased was he, that he showered honours upon him.

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[321] When the Master had ended this discourse, he declared the Truths and identified the Birth:--at the conclusion of the Truths the greedy Brother reached the Fruit of the Third Path, and many others entered the other Paths:--"The greedy man is the same in both stories, and I was King Dainty."

Footnotes

^221:1 See Morris, Folk-lore Journal, iv. 54.

^221:2 There is no such heading in Book IX. There is a Kaka-Jataka in Book VI. no. 395, where the Introd. Story is not given, but said to be "the same as before."

^221:3 The Talmud says that one should always run to meet the kings of Israel and even gentile kings.

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