[108] On hearing this the king and the priest thought, "All creatures, including the frog that lives in the forest, curse us," and going thence to the city they ruled their kingdom righteously, and abiding in the admonition of the Great Being they devoted themselves to charity and other good works.

The Master here ended his discourse to the king of Kosala in these words, "A king, Sire, must forsake evil courses, and rule his kingdom righteously," and he identified the Birth: "At that time the divinity of the tinduka tree was myself."

Footnotes

^54:1 No. 334, vol. iii. Rajovada-Jataka. No. 521, vol. v.

^57:1 The scholiast explains that the royal tax-gatherers had eaten the food first cooked by the slave for her master.

^58:1 A crow was called baliputtho, "nourished by oblations."

BOOK XVII. CATTALISANIPATA.