The Master, having ended this discourse, added, "Brethren, there is no such thing as a petty sin: the very smallest must be checked by a wise man." Then he declared the Truths, and identified the Birth (now at the conclusion of the Truths the five hundred Brethren became established in sainthood):--"At that time the Pacceka-Buddhas attained Nirvana, Rahula's mother was the queen consort, and I myself was the king."

Footnotes

^71:1 See on No. 412, vol. ii.

^71:2 i.e. word, or thought.

^71:3 That is, he made this the subject of his meditation (arammanam), and thus sunk into an ecstatic trance.

^72:1 Cf., Vidabbha-jataka, vol. i. no. 48

^74:1 Ought we to read abhunjitva, "did not care to eat"?

^74:2 "Extracted oil"? (Cf. Sucruta, I. 181). Apparently some kind of poison.

^74:3 Verdigris.