This discourse ended, the Master said, "So, Brethren, you see that Devadatta was ungrateful before," and then identified the Birth: "At that time, Devadatta was Sakha, Ananda was Pottika, and I myself was Nigrodha."

Footnotes

^22:1 Buddha;"he who possesses the ten powers."

^23:1 In vol. ii. page 2 (page 1 of translation, note 4) it is suggested that this may be a magical rite. It may; but the passage here translated supports a simpler meaning. The word in both cases is gabbhaparihara. Compare p. 124. 14 below (p. 79 of this. book).

^23:2 Lit. partum illuviemque puerperii.

^23:3 Lumbos illuvie puerperii inquinavit.

^24:1 In No. 284 (ii. p. 280 of this translation) the episode of the cocks has come already.

^25:1 Sword, parasol, diadem, slippers, fan.

^25:2 No. 539, vol. vi. p. 39.

^25:3 After this point he is several times called Pottiya.