Radha, wisest bird alive,
Sure thou knowest things to come,
This vile creature who shall drive
From the court to his old home?

Radha, on hearing this, uttered the fourth stanza:

Oft will his puckered face and moving ears
The royal children fill with foolish fears:
Soon Kalabahu through some impish freak,
Far far away his food will have to seek.

In a very short time the monkey by shaking his ears and the like tricks before the young princes terrified them. In their alarm they made an outcry. The king asked what it meant, and hearing the cause, said, "Drive him away." So he had the monkey driven away, and the parrots were restored to their former condition of gain and honour.

[100] The Master here ended his lesson and identified the Birth:--"At that time Devadatta was Kalabahu, Ananda was Potthapada, and I myself was Radha."

Footnotes

^65:1 See vol. ii. p. 140, and p. 168.