[91] "And this is the way," said the Master, "that Prince Peerless routed seven kings and won the battle; after which he took up the religious life." Then becoming perfectly enlightened he uttered these two verses:

"Prince Peerless, skilled in archers' craft, a doughty chief was he;
Swift as the lightning sped his shaft great warriors' bane to be.

"Among his foes what havoc done! yet hurt he not a soul;
He saved his brother; and he won the grace of self-control."

[92] When the Master had ended this discourse, he identified the Birth: "Ananda was then the younger brother, and I was myself the elder."

Footnotes

^60:1 Hardy, Manual of Buddhism, 114. The latter part of the story is given very briefly in Mahavastu, 2. 82-3, Caraksepana Jataka. It is figured on the Bharhut Stupa, see Cunningham, p. 70, and plate xxvii. 13; and on the Sauchi Tope, see Fergusson, Tree and Serpent Worship, pl. xxxvi. p. 181.

^62:1 In the Mahavastu it is wrapt round it (2. p. 82. 14, parivethitva); so in Hardy.

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