After the lesson, the Master declared the Truths and identified the Birth:--After the Truths the backsliding Brother was established in the fruition of the First Path:--"At that time Narada was the backsliding Brother, Salissara was Sariputta, Mendissara was Kassapa, Pabbata was Anuruddha, Kaladevala was Kaccana, Anusissa was Ananda, Kisavaccha was Moggallana, and Sarabhanga was myself."

Footnotes

^278:1 The Scholiast takes sadha with all the clauses: the meaning then would be

Good are the cares of household life, 'tis good to give away,
Not to be proud when riches grow, nor grieved when they decay.

^278:2 Both kalo and asito mean black: this person is the Asita, the Simeon of the Buddhist nativity; cf. vol. I. 54.