This discourse ended, the Master said, "Thus wise men of old left the glories of the serpent world, to keep the fast-day vows." Then he identified the Birth: "At that time, Devadatta was the snake-charmer, Rahula's mother was Sumana, Sariputta was Uggasena, and I was myself Campezya King of the Snakes."

Footnotes

^282:1 Reading with two MS., patthayamano.

^282:2 The six devaloka.

^283:1 No. 543 (vi. 157 Pali).

^283:2 No. 524 (v. 161 Pali).

^283:3 Reputed to be poisonous. Compare ii. 55 and 206 of this translation.

^284:1 These appear to be technical terms.

^284:2 That is, by his swift motion giving the appearance of thousands of hoods.

^285:1 Fourteenth and fifteenth are named.

^286:1 This couplet, and half the next, occur above, p. 422.

^286:2 Reading samvattaye, as Fausball suggests.

^287:1 "The serpent tribe" is the literal translation.

^288:1 See Schol. p. 142.

^288:2 Bronze thunderbolts, shaped somewhat like those which Zeus grasps in Greek vase paintings, are still used in North India as charms.

^289:1 Cassia Fistula.

^289:2 Bignonia Suaveolens.

^289:3 See above, p. 280; and iii. 306 (translation, p. 190).