barber does not know his place: he calls my kingly high-descended son Brahmadatta," and she spoke the seventh stanza:--

Penance forsooth makes men forsake their sins,
Their barber's, potter's, stations every one:
Through penance Gangamala glory wins,
And "Brahmadatta" now he calls my son.

[453] The king checked his mother and declaring the qualities of the paccekabuddha, he spoke the eighth stanza:--

Lo! how, e'er his death befall,
Meekness brings a man its fruit!
One who bowed before us all,
Kings and lords must now salute.

Though the king checked his mother, the rest of the multitude rose up and said, "It is not decent that such a low-caste person should speak to you by name in that way." The king rebuked the multitude, and spoke the last stanza to declare the virtues of the paccekabuddha:--

Scorn not Gangamala so,
Perfect in religion's ways:
He has crossed the waves of woe,
Free from sorrow now he strays.

So saying the king saluted the paccekabuddha and asked him to forgive the queen-mother. The paccekabuddha did so and the king's retinue also gained his forgiveness. The king wished him to promise that he would stay in the neighbourhood: but he refused, and standing in the air before the eyes of the whole court he admonished the king and went away to Gandhamadana

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[454] After the lesson the Master said, "Lay-brethren, you see how keeping the fast is proper to be done," and he identified the Birth: "At that time the paccekabuddha entered into nirvana, king Half-penny was Ananda, the chief queen was the mother of Rahula, king Udaya was myself."

Footnotes

^266:1 The Pali text here is wrongly punctuated.

^267:1 nantaka as in p. 22. 1: the palm-leaf is used as an ear-ornament.

^269:1 Cf. Cullavagga, v. 27.

^270:1 See supra, p. 247.