So the Great Being spoke these eleven stanzas to fix impossible (atthana) conditions. The courtesan, hearing him, won his forgiveness and went back to Benares. She told the matter to the king, and begged for her life, which was granted.

After the lesson, the Master said, "So, Brethren, womankind are ungrateful and treacherous"; then he 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 the king was Ananda, the ascetic was myself."

Footnotes

^282:1 Cf. Tibetan Tales, no. 12 Sus'roni, and supra, no. 374.