[27] When the king had listened to the Great Being's discourse, he was well pleased, and bade one of his courtiers lead the woman back; and invited the passionless recluse to stay with her in that park, in the enjoyment of their solitary life, and he promised to watch over them and defend them as he ought. Then asking pardon, he politely took leave. And they two dwelt there. By and bye the woman died, and after her death, the man returned to the Himalayas, and cultivating the Faculties and the Attainments, and causing the Excellences to spring up within him, he became destined for Brahma's heaven.

When the Master had ended his discourse, he declared the Truths, and identified the Birth;--(now at the conclusion of the Truths the passionate Brother became established in the fruit of the Third Path:)--"At that time Rahula's mother was the ascetic lady, Ananda was the king, and I myself was the ascetic."

Footnotes

^13:1 Cf. Ananusociya-jataka, No. 328, vol. iii. (Sammillabhasini, which is an epithet in the first stanza here, is a proper name there, p. 64).

^13:2 bahiraasane is doubtless a misprint for bahirasasane.