When the Master had ended this discourse, he said: "This is not the first time, Brethren, that Sariputta knew in detail what was said only in general terms; but the same thing happened before." Then he identified the Birth: "At that time Ananda was the king, Sariputta was the chaplain, and I myself the stag."

Footnotes

^166:1 Cf. Jayaddisa Jataka, no. 513, vol. v.

^166:2 The story is told in Culla-vagga, v. 8 (Vinaya Texts, III. p. 78, in the Sacred Books of the East). The setthi had placed a sandal-wood bowl on a high pole, and challenged any holy person to get it down. Pindola rose in the air by magic power and took it. For this he was blamed by the Master, as having used his great gift for an unworthy end.

^167:1 Reading varitam.

^167:2 The Eastern day is reckoned from sunset to sunset.

^168:1 Mount Meru or Sineru, the Indian Olympus, is surrounded by seven concentric circles of hills, the innermost of which is Yugandhara.

^168:2 The tree named is the Erythmia Indica; a great one grew in Indra's heaven.

^168:3 Abhidhamma.

^169:1 Samkhatadhamma seems to mean an araha or asekha.

^169:2 The five Khandhas.

^169:3 Doubtless a proverb: one may miss the most obvious things.

^171:1 The same stanza has occurred already in vol. i. p. 267 (i. 133 of this translation). The first line is found also in i. 450 (trans. i. 274).

^171:2 The same stanza in i. 268 (trans. i. 133).

^172:1 This may mean "first trying his strength with a stone," as vol. v. pp. 68 and 70. So p. 170 above.

^173:1 Vetarani.

^173:2 Yama.

^173:3 Vasavo.

^173:4 bhutva, "having eaten," applied to time, means to "pass": bhutva dvadasa vassani, Mah. 253.

BOOK XIV.--PAKINNAKA-NIPATA.