After the lesson, the Master declared the Truths and identified the Birth: "At that time the king was Ananda, the monkey's retinue the assembly, and the monkey-king myself."

Footnotes

^225:1 This story is figured in Cunningham's Stupa of Bharhut, plate XXXIII, fig. 4 (explained by Mr. Tawney in Proc. As. Soc. of Bengal for Aug. 1891). Cf. Jatakamala, no. 27 (The Great Monkey).

^225:2 No. 444, vol. iv.

^226:1 From the figure on the Bharhut Stupa, it appears that he jumped across the Ganges.