In illustration of this story these stanzas inspired by Perfect Wisdom were added at the close:

Soon as king parrot wisely made his choice,
The tree once more put forth its fruit again;
Then Sakka with his queen did fly amain
To where in Nandana the gods rejoice.

The Master, his lesson ended, said, "Thus, Brother, sages of old though born in animal forms were free from covetousness. Why then do you, after being ordained under so excellent a dispensation, follow greedy ways? So and dwell in the same place." And he gave him a form of meditation, and thus identified the Birth:--The Brother went back and by spiritual insight attained to Sainthood:--"At that time Sakka was Anuruddha, and the parrot king was myself."

Footnotes

^291:1 Morris, Folk Lore Journal, iii. 67.