[43] In this way the Bodhisatta showed his band of anchorites that it is well to be docile and not obstinate. Then he performed Indasamanagotta's obsequies, and cultivating the Excellences, came at last into Brahma's heaven.

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After concluding this discourse, the Master identified the Birth: "This unruly fellow was then Indasamanagotta, and I was myself the teacher of the anchorite band."

Footnotes

^28:1 Gijjha-jataka, No. 427.

^29:1 Or, "with his usual greeting, or signal."

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