This lesson ended, the Master said, "This, Ananda, is the place where I dwelt aforetime," and thus identified the Birth: "At that time Anuruddha was Sakka, and for myself, I was Kanha the Wise."

Footnotes

^5:1 i.e. he had no more feeling than these.

^6:1 See Childers, p. 123 a. These thirteen ascetic practices include living under a tree, living alone, living in the forest, sleeping in a sitting posture, mentioned already in the text.

^6:2 The following is a curious parallel to this idea about Indra's throne: "The kings had a heritage at that time. When they did not know how to split justice properly, the judgement seat would begin to kick, and the king's neck would take a twist when he did not do justice as he ought." Campbell's Popular Tales of the West Highlands, ii. p. 159.

^8:1 These lines occur in Milinda, p. 384.

^8:2 Of Body, Speech, Mind: the three gates through which evil enters.

^8:3 Reading patitthapetva, and in line 12 vyadhidhammam.