Fresh from his bath and lotns-wreathcd, He moDcs along the honieivard track. Vast is his brake and lily white.

And there before him walks a dearloved qnccn.

Of all the huntsmen, one by name Sonuttara, who was a hideous lout and big and strong, undertook the task, and being furnished with all needful implements, he set forth on his way. It needed seven years of weary going to reach Chaddanta's haunts; but no sooner come there, than Sonuttara dug a pit and covered it with logs and grass, and donning the yellow robes of a man of religion, and taking his bow and poisoned arrow, he hid himself and lay in wait. Presently Chaddanta passed by, and Sonuttara wounded him with the poisoned arrow. But the elephant subduing his feelings of resentment, asked the hunter, ' Why have you wounded me? is it for your own ends or to satisfy the will of another? ' The hunter answered that Subhadda, the consort of the King of Benares, had sent him to secure the tusks. Chaddanta reflected, ' It is not that she wishes for the tusks, but she desires my death; ' and he said :

Come now, thou hunter, and before I die Saw through my ivory tusks; And bid the jealotis qtieen rejoice ^Here are the tusks., the elephant is dead' So Chaddanta bowed his head, and Sonuttara began to saw the tusks; and when he could not cut them, the great elephant took the saw in his trunk and moved it to and fro till the tusks were severed. Then he gave up

the tusks and said, ' I do not give you these tusks, my friend, because I think them of little value, nor to win the status of a god, but because the tusks of omniscience are a thousand times dearer to me than these; and may this worthy gift be the cause of my attaining Omniscience.' Then the hunter departed with the tusks; and before the other elephants reached Chaddanta he had died. The hunter came then before the queen and said: Here are his tusks, the beast is dead. ' Do you tell me that he is dead? ' she cried; and he answered, ' Rest assured that he is dead, here are the tusks.' Then she received the six-rayed tusks, and laying them across her lap, and thinking, ' These are the tusks of him who was once my lord,' she was filled with sorrow so great that she could not bear it, but there and then her heart broke and she died the same day. To make the story clear, the Master said :

She whom you used to see, A Sister in the yellow robe. Was once a queen, and I The king of elephants^ who died.

But he that took the shining tusks Matchless on earth, of pure tvhite, And brought them to Benares town. Has now the name of Devadatta. " This story of the past the Master told out of his own knowledge, but for all its sorrow, yet he himself was free from pain and grief. " And on hearing this discourse a multitude entered the First Path, and the Sister novice not long afterwards attained to Arahatta."

Fresh from his bath and lotns-wreathcd, He moDcs along the honieivard track. Vast is his brake and lily white.

And there before him walks a dearloved qnccn.

Of all the huntsmen, one by name Sonuttara, who was a hideous lout and big and strong, undertook the task, and being furnished with all needful implements, he set forth on his way. It needed seven years of weary going to reach Chaddanta's haunts; but no sooner come there, than Sonuttara dug a pit and covered it with logs and grass, and donning the yellow robes of a man of religion, and taking his bow and poisoned arrow, he hid himself and lay in wait. Presently Chaddanta passed by, and Sonuttara wounded him with the poisoned arrow. But the elephant subduing his feelings of resentment, asked the hunter, ' Why have you wounded me? is it for your own ends or to satisfy the will of another? ' The hunter answered that Subhadda, the consort of the King of Benares, had sent him to secure the tusks. Chaddanta reflected, ' It is not that she wishes for the tusks, but she desires my death; ' and he said :

Come now, thou hunter, and before I die Saw through my ivory tusks; And bid the jealotis qtieen rejoice ^Here are the tusks., the elephant is dead' So Chaddanta bowed his head, and Sonuttara began to saw the tusks; and when he could not cut them, the great elephant took the saw in his trunk and moved it to and fro till the tusks were severed. Then he gave up

the tusks and said, ' I do not give you these tusks, my friend, because I think them of little value, nor to win the status of a god, but because the tusks of omniscience are a thousand times dearer to me than these; and may this worthy gift be the cause of my attaining Omniscience.' Then the hunter departed with the tusks; and before the other elephants reached Chaddanta he had died. The hunter came then before the queen and said: Here are his tusks, the beast is dead. ' Do you tell me that he is dead? ' she cried; and he answered, ' Rest assured that he is dead, here are the tusks.' Then she received the six-rayed tusks, and laying them across her lap, and thinking, ' These are the tusks of him who was once my lord,' she was filled with sorrow so great that she could not bear it, but there and then her heart broke and she died the same day. To make the story clear, the Master said :

She whom you used to see, A Sister in the yellow robe. Was once a queen, and I The king of elephants^ who died.

But he that took the shining tusks Matchless on earth, of pure tvhite, And brought them to Benares town. Has now the name of Devadatta. " This story of the past the Master told out of his own knowledge, but for all its sorrow, yet he himself was free from pain and grief. " And on hearing this discourse a multitude entered the First Path, and the Sister novice not long afterwards attained to Arahatta."