The Master here ended his lesson and revealed the Truths, and identified the Birth:--At the conclusion of the Truths the backsliding Brother attained the fruit of the First Path:--" At that time the backsliding Brother was the Archer, the wife he had left was that woman, and I myself was Sakka, king of heaven."

Footnotes

^144:1 See Morris, Folk-Lore Journal, ii. 371, and Tibetan Tales, xii., Susroni. Compare also No. 425 infra.

^146:1 This stanza occurs in No. 318 supra, with which this story may be compared.

^147:1 His charioteer and a gandharva.