[228] When the Master had ended this discourse, he said: "So, Brethren, it is not now only that the Tathagata is fertile in resource, but he was always the same." Then he identified the Birth: "At that time Ananda was the king, Sariputta the teacher, and I was the young man."

Footnotes

^140:1 Buddha's half-brother. For the allusion see No. 182, Samgavacara Jataka, and Hardy, Manual, p. 204; Warren, Buddhism in Translations, 269 ff.

^140:2 Reading cullupatthakassa.

^140:3 Of attha-, dhamma-, nirutti-, patibhana-. For explanation of these obscure terms the reader is referred to Childers, p. 366; and Warren, Buddhism in Translations, Index s. v. "Analytical Sciences."

^140:4 "Seven nikkha's." Nikkho is a variable weight, equal to 250 phalas, which we may call grains.

^141:1 These two couplets occur above in No. 476 (p. 135).