The king heard that the prince had returned and set out to meet him, and the prince, escorted by a great multitude, came and saluted the king. And he asked him, saying, "Dear son, how have you escaped from so terrible an ogre?" And he said, "Dear father, he is no ogre; he is your elder brother and my uncle." And he told him all about it and said, "You must go and see my uncle." The king at once ordered a drum to be beaten, and set out with a great retinue to visit the ascetics. The chief ascetic told them the whole story in full; how the child had been carried off by an ogress, and how instead of eating him she had brought him up as an ogre, and how they were related one to another. The king said, "Come, brother, do you reign as king." "No, thank you, Sire," he replied. "Then come and take up your abode in our park and I will supply you with the four requisites." He refused to come. Then the king made a settlement on a certain mountain, not far from their hermitage, and, forming a lake, prepared cultivated fields and, bringing a thousand families with much treasure, he founded a big village and instituted a system of almsgiving for the ascetics. This village grew into the town Cullakammasadamma.

[36] The region where the ogre was tamed by the Great Being Sutasoma was to be known as the town of Mahakammasadamma .

The Master, having ended his lesson, revealed the Truths and identified the Birth:--At the conclusion of the Truths the elder who supported his mother was established in the fruition of the First Path:--"At that time the father and mother were members of the king's household, the ascetic was Sariputta, the man-eater was Angulimala, the young sister was Uppalavanna, the queen consort was Rahula's mother, prince Alinasattu was myself."

Footnotes

^11:1 Should we not read devatta- for devadatta-?

^11:2 Vol. VI. No. 540. Cf. also vol. IV. No. 510 Ayogharajataka.

^12:1 One of the four great demon-kings, the Hindu Plutus.

^13:1 He ultimately gets four thousand pieces.

^16:1 See Ramayana, book iii.

^18:1 See No. 316 Sasajataka, vol. iii. p. 34 (English version). The commentary adds that in the present Kalpa the moon is marked by a yakkha instead of a hare.

^19:1 The founding of a place of this name occurs at the end of the Mahasutasoma-Jataka, vol. v. p. 511.