When the Master had ended this discourse, he summed up the Birth-tale; "At that time the Jackal was Devadatta, the Crow was Kokalika, but the Spirit of the Tree was I myself."

Footnotes

^299:1 Compare No. 295, and Aesop's fable of the Fox and the Crow.

^299:2 A fabulous king, the same as Ikshvaku. See reff. in J. P. T. S. 1888, p. 17.

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