Brahmin, I have witness strong,
"Right is dead" I must believe:
All men now who follow wrong
Great prosperity receive.

Barren once, my good son's spouse
Beats me, and she bears a son:
She is lady of our house,
I an outcast and undone.

Then Sakka spoke the sixth stanza:--

Nay, I live eternally;
'Twas for your sake that I came:
She beat you; but her son and she
Shall be ashes in my flame.

[427] Hearing him, she cried, "Alas, what say you? I will try to save my grandson from death," and so she spoke the seventh stanza:--

King of gods, your will be done:
If for me you left the sky,
May my children and their son
Live with me in amity.

Then Sakka spoke the eighth stanza:--

Katiyani's will be done:
Beaten, you still on Right rely:
With your children and their son
Share one home in amity.

After saying this, Sakka, now in all his divine apparel, stood in the air by his supernatural power and said, "Kaccani, be not afraid: by my power your son and daughter-in-law will come, and after getting your forgiveness on the way will take you back with them: dwell with them in peace:" then he went to his own place. By Sakka's power they bethought themselves of her goodness, and making enquiry through the village they found she had gone towards the cemetery. They went along the road calling for her: when they saw her they fell at her feet, and asked and obtained her pardon for their offence. She welcomed her grandson. So they all went home in delight and thenceforth dwelt together.

Joyful with her good son's wife
Katiyani then did dwell:
Indra pacified their strife,
Son and grandson tend her well.

This stanza is inspired by Perfect Wisdom.

[428] After the lesson the Master declared the Truths and identified the Birth: after the Truths that lay brother was established in the fruition of the First Path:--"At that time the man who supported his mother was the man who is supporting his mother to-day, the wife of that time was the wife of today, and Sakka was myself."

Footnotes

^253:1 See Morris, Folk-lore Journal, ii. p. 306.

^255:1 She is called Katiyani in the eighth stanza.

^255:2 Sakka identifies himself with Right.