perfect was it that it could never be said of any particular fruit-bearing or flowering tree that it was not there!
And Pleasing made a pond there, covered with the five kinds of water-lilies, and beautiful to see!
Well-born did nothing at all.[1]
And the Bodisat fulfilled the seven religious duties — that is, to support one's mother, to support one's father, to pay honour to age, to speak truth, not to speak harshly, not to abuse others, and to avoid a selfish, envious, niggardly disposition.
That person who his parents doth support,
Pays honour to the seniors in the house,
Is gentle, friendly-speaking, slanders not;
The man unselfish, true, and self-controlled,
Him do the angels of the Great Thirty Three
Proclaim a righteous man!
Such praise did he receive; and at the end of his life he was born again in the heaven of the Great Thirty Three, as Sakka, the king of the Gods, and there, too, his friends were born again.
At that time there were Titans dwelling in the heaven of the Great Thirty Three.
And Sakka said, "What is the good to us of a kingdom shared by others?"
And he had ambrosia given to the Titans to drink, and
- ↑ The "Scripture Verses" commentator (p. 189) avoids the curious abruptness of this rather unkind remark by adding that the reason for this was that Well-born's being the Bodisat's niece and servant, she thought she would share in the merit of his part in the work.
