The Master, having ended his lesson, identified the Birth: " Sariputta at that time was the young priest, I myself was the ascetic."

Footnotes

^29:1 Compare Buddhaghosha's Parables, No. 15: "Story of the Four Thuthe's Sons." King Pasenadikosala in this story was meditating the sin of David against Uriah the Hittite, and was deterred from his purpose by the awful vision related in this Jataka. See also Turnour's Mahawanso, i. IV. 18. A king in a dream sees his soul cast into the Lohakumbhi Hell.

^29:2 Possibly to avert the evil omen.

^29:3 See Colebrooke's Essays, i. 348.

^31:1 See Milindapanha, 357.