The Master, having finished his lesson, revealed the Truths and identified the Birth:--At the conclusion of the Truths the back-sliding Brother was established in the fruition of the First Path:--"At that time the wife of his unregenerate days was Nalinika, the back-sliding Brother was Isisinga, and I myself was the father."

Footnotes

^100:1 Vol. v. No. 523.

^102:1 Nalinika, pretending she has been wounded by a bear, practises on the simplicity of the ascetic youth with much the same guile as Venus employs to win Adonis. Compare The Passionate Pilgrim,

Once, quoth she, did I see a fair sweet youth,
Here in these brakes, deep-wounded with a boar,
Deep in the thigh...

Malone in his Shakspeare, vol. x. p. 324, points out that Rabelais, La Fontaine and other writers have sported with the same thought. Cf. Rabelais, II. chap. xv, The lion and the old woman.

^104:1 ciritaka is found as the name of a bird in Caraka, I. 27. 46, p. 174 of Calcutta, 1877 edition.

^106:1 The fifth stanza is a repetition of the preceding one and is omitted in the English.

^106:2 Reading, nassati.