Kali, depart: there's naught to please you here:
To other lands and cities disappear.

Kalakanni, hearing him, was sorrowful and spoke another stanza:

I know you well: there's naught to please me here.
Others are luckless, who amass much gear;
My brother-god and I will make it disappear.

When she had gone, Siri the goddess, coming with raiment and ointment of golden hue and ornament of golden brightness to the door of the presence-chamber, diffusing yellow light, rested with even feet on level ground and stood respectful. The Bodhisatta seeing her repeated the first stanza:

Who is this, divine of hue,
On the ground so firm and true?
Who are you, whose daughter, say,
How are we to know you, pray?

[262] Siri, hearing him, spoke the second stanza:

The great king Dhatarattha is my sire:
Fortune and Luck am I, and Wisdom men admire:
Grant me the house-room with you I desire.

Then

What the conduct, what the ways
Of the men with whom you dwell?
This is what my question prays;
We will mark your answer well.

He who in cold and heat, in wind and sun,
Mid thirst and hunger, snake and poison-fly,
His present duty night and day hath done;
With him I dwell and love him faithfully.

Gentle and friendly, righteous, liberal,
Guileless and honest, upright, winning, bland,
Meek in high place: I tinge his fortunes all,
Like waves their hue through ocean that expand.

To friend or unfriend, better, like or worse,
Helper or foe, by dark or open day,
Whoso is kind, [263] without harsh word or curse,
I am his friend, living or dead, alway.

But if a fool have won some love from me,
And waxes proud and vain,
His froward path of wantonness I flee,
Like filthy stain.

Each man's fortune and misfortune are his own work, not another's:
Neither fortune nor misfortune can a man make for his brothers.

Such was Siri's answer when questioned by the merchant.

[264] The Bodhisatta rejoiced at Siri's words, and said, "Here is the pure seat and bed, proper for you; sit and lie down there." She stayed there and in the morning departed to the Heaven of the Four Great Kings and bathed first in lake Anotatta. The bed used by Siri was called Sirisaya: hence is the origin of Sirisayana, and for this reason it is so called to this day.

After the lesson the Master identified the Birth: "At that time the goddess Siri was Uppalavanna, the merchant Suciparivara was myself."

Footnotes

^165:1 These are Dhatarattha, King of the North, Virulha of the South, Virupakkha of the West, and Vessavana of the East.

^166:1 Of which the Heaven of the Four Kings is the first.

^166:2 Blue is the unlucky colour.