[454] This discourse ended, the Master said, "Thus Brethren, he went about to slay me in former days, as now," and then he identified the Birth: "At that time Devadatta was the impostor, Mahamaya was the mother, Sariputta was Rakkhita, and I myself was Prince Somanassa."

Footnotes

^279:1 passehi is probably for phassehi (objects of touch): rupa corresponds to the eye.

^279:2 These stanzas occur in Vol. iii. pp. 105 and 154 (translation, pp. 70, 103).

^280:1 These two lines occur in iii. 306 (translation, p. 191).