With these words he showed forth the kingly virtues in the form of a stanza, and after staying some days with the king he sent a golden drum round the town, proclaiming the gift of security to all beings: and then saying, "O king, be watchful," he went to see his parents.

Of old in Oudh a king of deer I hight,
By name and nature, Nandiya, Delight.

To kill me in his deer-park came the King,
His bow was bent, his arrow on the string.

To the King's arrow I exposed my side;
Then saw my mother and was justified.

These were the stanzas inspired by Perfect Wisdom.

At the end, the Master declared the Truths, and identified the Birth:--At the end of the Truths, the Brother who supported his mother was established in the First Path:--"At that time the father and mother were members of the royal family, the brahmin was Sariputta, the king Ananda, the deer myself."

Footnotes

^173:1 There is a pun here on gunam which means merit or string.