[265] These lines are not in the printed text. But see the Corrigenda; and Léon Feer, in the Journal Asiatique for 1876, p. 520.
[266] It was on the occasion related in the Introductory Story of this Jātaka, and after he had told the Birth Story, that the Buddha, according to the commentator on that work (Fausböll, pp. 302-305), uttered the 141st verse of the Dhamma-padaŋ. The Introductory Story to No. 32, translated below in this volume, is really only another version of this tale of the luxurious monk.
[267] The elder brother is more advanced in his theology.
[268] The whole of this story, including the introduction, is found also, word for word, in the commentary on the ‘Scripture Verses’ (Fausböll, pp. 302-305); and the commentator adds that the Buddha then further uttered the 141st verse of that collection:
Not nakedness, not plaited hair, not dirt,
Not fasting oft, nor lying on the ground;
Not dust and ashes, nor vigils hard and stern,
Can purify that man who still is tossed
Upon the waves of doubt!
The same verse occurs in the Chinese work translated by Mr. Beal (The ’Dhammapada, etc.,’ p. 96). Another verse of similar purport has been quoted above (p. 69), and a third will be found in Āmagandha Sutta (Sutta Nipāta, p. 168, verse 11). The same sentiment occurs in the Mahā-Bhārta, iii. 13445, translated in Muir’s ‘Metrical Translations from Sanskrit Writers,’ p. 75, and in the Northern Buddhist work Divyāvadāna (Burnouf, Introduction à l’Histoire du Bouddhisme Indien, p. 313).