"The hunter traversed all the forest land
To catch the lord of peacocks, snare in hand.
The glorious lord of peacocks he set free
From pain, as soon as he was caught, like me."

Having ended this discourse, the Master declared the Truths: now at the conclusion of the Truths, the backsliding Brother attained to sainthood: then he identified the Birth by saying, "At that time I was the peacock king."

Footnotes

^210:1 Printed by Fausboll, Ten Jatakas, p. 111. Compare Mora Jataka, no. 159 (ii. 33, transl. p. 23).

^210:2 Pterospermum Acerifolium.

^211:1 The first line of a hymn given in the first Peacock Birth (ii. 33, transl. p. 23).

^211:2 Vol. ii. p. 35 (transl. p. 24).

^214:1 This was strictly forbidden to the Brethren.

^215:1 Impermanence, suffering, unreality.

^215:2 That is, on the point of entering Nirvana.

^215:3 Bowl, three robes, girdle, razor, needle, water-strainer.