And the Bodisat continued thus his life long to instruct the deer, and passed away with his herd according to his deeds.
The king, too, hearkened to the exhortations of the Bodisat, and then, in due time, passed away, according to his deeds.
The Master, having finished the discourse in illustration of his saying, “Not only now was I the protector of the nun and of Kassapa the Prince; in a former birth I was the same,” he fully expounded the Four Truths. And when he had told the double story, he made the connexion, and summed up the Jātaka by saying, “He who was then the Monkey Deer was Devadatta, his herd was Devadatta’s following, the roe was the nun, her son was Kassapa the Prince, the king was Ānanda, but the royal Banyan Deer was I myself.”
END OF THE STORY OF THE BANYAN DEER.
No. 13.
KAṆḌINA JĀTAKA.
The Dart of Love.
[The Introductory Story is the same as that of the Indriya Jātaka in Book VIII.]
Long ago a king of Magadha was reigning in Rājagaha, in the country of Magadha. At the season of harvest the deer suffered much at the hands of the people of Magadha. So they were wont to go away to the forest at the foot of the mountains.