After the meal, he invited them for the next day, and so on for seven days following, presenting them with many gifts, and on the seventh day he gave them all the requisites. Then they gave him thanks, and passing through the air returned to the same place, and the requisites also went with them.

The Master, after finishing this discourse, said: "No wonder, Brethren, that the king of Kosala being my follower, has given me the gift incomparable, for wise men of old when as yet there was no Buddha, did the same." Then he identified the Birth: "At that time Ananda was the king, and the wise Vidhura was I myself."

Footnotes

^227:1 See Fick, Sociale Gliederung, p. 140.

^227:2 No such title appears. The incomparable gift is referred to in No. 424, Aditta jataka, but the reader is referred to Mahagovinda Sutta.

^228:1 This line occurs in iii. 401 (p. 202 of the translation).

^229:1 The fruits and trees named are: myrobolan (terminalia chebula), emblic myrobolan (emblica officinalis), mango, rose-apple (Eugenia jambu), beleric myrobolan, artocarpus lacucha, vilva (aegle marmelos), rajayatana wood (? Buchanania latifolia). Brahmins were forbidden to sell fruits or healing herbs, honey and ointment, not to say other things.

^229:2 I.e. arrange a marriage in which the man pays them a price.

^229:3 A mixt caste, sprung from a brahmin father and a Vaicya woman.

^230:1 After a soma offering, the custom was for a king to bathe on a gorgeous couch. A brahmin lay beneath, and the holy water, washing off the king's sins, washed them on to the brahmin, who received the bed and all its ornaments as recompense for playing scapegoat. Fick, Sociale Gliederung, p. 143, note, quoting Oldenberg, Religion des Veda, pp. 407ff.

^231:1 Lit. prostration of "the five rests," so as to touch the ground with forehead both elbows, waist, knees, and feet.

^231:2 Water poured into the right-hand in ratifying some promise made or gift bestowed.