"Who sees the truth in falsity no wisdom gains at all,
As on a rugged mountain-path the deer will often fall.

"If any strong courageous man loves virtue, follows right,
Though but a low-born churl, he burns like bonfires in the night.

"By using this similitude all wisdom's truths explain,
Cherish your sons till wise they grow, like seedlings in the rain."

[430] Thus did the Great Being discourse to the king the livelong night. The queen's craving was appeased. By sunrise he established him in the virtues of kings, and exhorted him to be vigilant, then with Sumukha flew out of the northern window and to Cittakuta away.

After this discourse, the Master said, "Thus, Brethren, this man offered his life for me before," and then he identified the Birth: "At that time Channa was the huntsman, Sariputta the king, a sister was Queen Khema, the Sakiya tribe was the flock of geese, Ananda was Sumukha, and I was the Goose King myself."

Footnotes

^264:1 No. 534, where the king of the geese is named Dhatarattha.

^265:1 This couplet occurs in ii. 52 (p. 35 of translation), and iii. 331 (p. 204,"When ruin...").

^266:1 The Ten Perfections of the Bodhisatta are given in Childers' Dictionary, p. 335 a.

^266:2 This line occurs in iii. 331 (p. 204 of translation, "O hunter...").

^266:3 The last three words come from the scholiast's note.