(Anthony watches more attentively.)
The Buddha[2] (continuing).
"From the furthest recesses of the Himalayas, a holy man one hundred years of age, hurried to see me."
Hilarion. "A man named Simeon ... who should not see death, before he had seen the Christ of the Lord."[3]
The Buddha. "I was led unto the schools; and it was found that I knew more than the teachers."
Hilarion. "... In the midst of the doctors ... and all that heard him were astonished at his wisdom!"[4]
(Anthony makes a sign to Hilarion to be silent.)
The Buddha. "Continually did I meditate in the gardens. The shadows of the trees turned with the turning of the sun; but the shadow of that which sheltered me turned not.
"None could equal me in the knowledge of the Scriptures, the enumeration of atoms, the conduct of elephants, the working of wax, astronomy, poetry, pugilism, all the exercises and all the arts!
"In accordance with custom, I took to myself a wife; and I passed the days in my kingly palace;—clad in pearls, under a rain of perfumes, refreshed by the fans of thirty thousand women,—watching my peoples from the height of my terraces adorned with fringes of resonant bells.