Who are those rowing in the boats?[91]
Oh, I am weary. I will sit on this tree-stump and rest awhile.
PRIEST.
Come! The sun is sinking; we must hasten on our way. Look, look at that beggar there! It is a holy Stūpa that she is sitting on! I must tell her to come off it.
Now then, what is that you are sitting on? Is it not a holy Stūpa, the worshipful Body of Buddha? Come off it and rest in some other place.
KOMACHI.
Buddha’s worshipful body, you say? But I could see no writing on it, nor any figure carved. I thought it was only a tree-stump.
PRIEST.
Even the little black tree on the hillside
When it has put its blossoms on
Cannot be hid;
And think you that this tree
Cut fivefold in the fashion of Buddha’s holy form
Shall not make manifest its power?
KOMACHI.