As ghee-fed flame that blazes out amain
Is quenched with water, so he quenched my pain.

With sorrow's shaft my heart was wounded sore:
He healed my wound and did my life restore.

[391] The barb extracted, full of joy and peace,
At Sakka's words I from my sorrow cease.

These were given above.

After admonishing the ascetic, Sakka went to his own place.

The Master, after the lesson, identified the Birth: "At that time the young elephant was the novice, the ascetic the old Brother, Sakka was I myself."

Footnotes

^236:1 See supra, p. 214.