BURLINGAME. — BUDDHAGHOSA's DHAMMAPADA COMMENTARY. 493 



The lay brethren of Kosambi, learning the reason of the Teacher's 

 departure, snubbed the monks until they came around to a proper view 

 of things and asked to be pardoned. This the laymen declined to do 

 until the monks apologized to the Teacher. But as the rainy season 

 was then at its height, they were unable to go to the Teacher, and had a 

 very unpleasant time as a result. The Teacher, however, spent the 

 time pleasantly, attended by an elephant. (57) 



Buddha, the Elephant, and the Monkey. A noble elephant named 

 Parileyyaka, who had left his herd on account of the excessive annoy- 

 ances to which he had been subjected, came to Protected Forest, paid 

 obeisance to the Teacher, swept the ground with the branch of a tree, 

 gave the Teacher water to drink, heated water for his bath, and 

 brought him wild fruits. When the Teacher went to the village to 

 collect alms, the elephant took his bowl and robe, put them on the top 

 of his head, and accompanied him as far as the village. Then he gave 

 him his bowl and robe, and waited right there until he returned ; 

 whereupon he advanced to meet him, took his bowl and robe as before, 

 deposited them in his place of abode, performed the usual courtesies, 

 and fanned him with the branch of a tree. During the night he 

 paced back and forth in the interstices of the forest with a big club in 

 his trunk, protecting the Teacher from attacks of beasts of prey. 

 (Thus the forest came to be called Protected Forest.) At sunrise he 

 gave him water to rinse his mouth with, and in the same manner 

 performed all the other duties. (57-9) 



The elephant's courteous attentions to the Teacher excited in a 

 monkey the desire to do likewise. One day he found some honey and 

 presented it to the Teacher. The latter accepted it, but refrained 

 from eating it. It turned out that there were some insects' eggs in it. 

 These the monkey carefully removed ; the Teacher then ate the honey. 

 The monkey was so delighted that he leaped from one branch to 

 another and danced about in great glee. A branch broke, down he fell 

 on the stump of a tree, and a splinter pierced his body. So he died. 

 But because of his faith in the Teacher he was reborn in the world of 

 the Thirty-three. (59-60) 



When it became known that the Teacher was living there, Anatha- 

 pindika and others requested Ananda to procure for them the privi- 

 lege of hearing the Teacher. Ananda, accompanied by five hundred 

 monks, went to the forest. Not knowing how Buddha would feel 

 about receiving so many visitors, he left the monks outside, and 

 approached the Teacher alone. Parileyyaka assumed a threatening 

 attitude, but abandoned it at the command of his master. Learning 

 that Ananda had come with five hundred monks, Buddha instructed 



