When the Teacher had ended this discourse, he declared the Truths, and explained the Birth-tale. At the conclusion of the Truths, some entered the First Path, some the Second, some entered the Third, and some became saints. And the Birth-tale is thus explained:--

"Uppalavanna was the courtesan,
Punna the porter, and the driver was
Kuccana; Kolita, the measurer;
The rich man, Sariputta; he who drove
The chariot, Anuruddha; and the priest
Was Kassapa the Elder; he that was
The Viceroy, now is Nandapandita;
Rahula's mother has the queen-consort,
The Queen-mother was Maya; and the King
Was Bodhisatta.--Thus the Birth is clear."

Footnotes

^251:1 Cf. Cariya-Pitaka, I. 3; Dhammapada, p. 416.--In this story the king appears as a rain-maker, and on certain occasions dresses like the gods.

^253:1 i.e. we spent all we had on food, trusting that you would give us the elephant when we asked for it.

^254:1 October-November.

^257:1 Some difference there must be between rajjugahahaamacco and saratthi (the same words occur in Dhp. p. 416). I would suggest that the former is the more important, and may answer to the Greek paraibates, Skr. savyesther.

^258:1 I.e. in the samgha (natti is a 'resolution').

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