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grow fruit that thanked him as he plucked them. Four angels take him up to heaven, where he is taught of wisdom, and then returns to earth, and converts all he meets. He visits his native town and his father, and at last reaches Kashmir, where he puts his head to the west, and his feet to the east, and dies after giving his blessing to his favourite pupil Anand. Here we have clearly the Great Renunciation, and the enlightenment under the Bo-Tree. The vizier is Chandaka, the boy, Rahula. Kashmir is a misreading for Kusinara, and Anand, of Ananda. (Cf. Carus, §§ vii., xi., xcvi., xcvii)]