knew I was appeased I sent for Sumangala": and so he spoke these stanzas to declare the duty of a king:--

Conscious of an angry frown,
Ne'er let king stretch out his rod:
Things unworthy of a crown
Then would follow from his nod.

Conscious of a milder mood,
Let him judgments harsh decree,
When the case is understood,
Fix the proper penalty:

Self nor others will he vex,
Clearly parting right from wrong:
Though his yoke is on men's necks,
Virtue holds him high and strong.

Princes reckless in their deed
Ply the rod remorselessly,
Ill repute is here their meed,
Hell awaits them when they die.

[442] They who love the saintly law,
Pure in deed and word and thought,
Filled with kindness, calm and awe,
Pass through both worlds as they ought.

King am I, my people's lord;
Anger shall not check my bent:
When to vice I take the sword,
Pity prompts the punishment.

[443] So the king declared his own good qualities in six stanzas: his whole court were pleased and declared his merits in the words, "Such excellence in moral practices and qualities is worthy of your majesty." Sumangala, after the court had finished speaking, saluted the king, and after obeisance spoke three stanzas in the king's praise:--

Such thy glory and thy power;
Ne'er resign them for an hour:
Free from anger, free from fears,
Reign in joy a hundred years.

Prince, whom all those virtues bless,
Mild and bland, but firm in worth,
Rule the world with righteousness,
Pass to heaven when freed from earth.

True in word, in action good,
Take the means thy end to gain:
Calm the troubled multitude,
As a cloud with genial rain.

[444] After the lesson connected with the admonition of the Kosala king, the Master identified the Birth: "At that time the paccekabuddha passed into nirvana, Sumangala was Ananda, the king was myself."