[301] Hearing this the king spoke the last stanza:--

From anger free, with grace in every thought,
I'll lend an ear whenever strangers sue:
I take thy counsel good, I bring to nought
My pride and serve thee, Lord, with homage due.

Having said so he came down from the terrace, saluted the paccekabuddha and stood on one side. The paccekabuddha sat cross-legged in the air and said, "Great king, that wizard was no Brother: henceforward recognise that the world is not vanity, that there are good Buddhists and Brahmins, and so give gifts, practise morality, keep the holy-days," preaching to the king. Sakka also by his power stood in the air, and preaching to the townsfolk, "Henceforward be zealous," he sent round proclamation by drum that the Buddhists and Brahmins who had fled should return. Then both went back to their own place. The king stood firm in the admonition and did good works.

After the lesson, the Master declared the Truths and identified the Birth:--"At that time the paccekabuddha reached Nirvana, the king was Ananda, Sakka was myself."

Footnotes

^189:1 No. 469, vol. iv.

^190:1 It is wrong to tell the name of a saintly teacher, cf. Mahavagga i. 74. 1.