bench, and eating. There, as he was busy partaking of the food, the king's messengers found him, and striking him with a sword, killed him. After his death, he was born in the Brahma world. It is said that in this birth the Bodhisatta was a mongoose-tamer, and in this servile occupation was put to death. The deities were angry, and poured down upon the whole kingdom of Mejjha a torrent of hot ashes, and wiped it out from among kingdoms. Therefore it is said:

"So the whole nation was destroyed of Mejjha, as they say,
For glorious Matanga's death, the kingdom swept away."

[390] When the Master had ended this discourse, he said: "It is not now the first time that Udena has abused religious men, but he did the same before." Then he identified the Birth: "At that time, Udena was Mandavya, and I myself was the wise Matanga."

Footnotes

^235:1 Also a name of a man of the Candala caste, which was the lowest.

^235:2 Lit. "one who has seen good omens."

^237:1 Reading assa.

^238:1 Adding sa, with one MS.

^238:2 Part of the Himalaya region.

^239:1 The last two lines occur on p. 205 (above, p. 128).

^241:1 These two lines occur above, p. 313 (p. 197 of this volume).

^243:1 The Indians use a fibrous stick for cleansing the teeth.

^243:2 Taking pahata- as used for pahina-.