BURLINGAME. — BUDDHAGHOSa's DHAMMAPADA COMMENTARY. 505 



sion. Then he climbed to the top of Vulture Peak and hurled down a 

 rock, but succeeded only in wounding the Teacher. Last of all he des- 

 patched the elephant Naiagiri against the Teacher, but Xnanda stood 

 in the breach and the Teacher subdued the elephant. Buddha in- 

 formed the monks that this was not the first time Ananda had risked 

 his life for him, and related the Ciilaharjsa, Mahaharjsa, and Kakkata 

 Jatakas. (140-141) 



After that neither the people nor the king would have anything 

 more to do with Devadatta. Then the latter went to Buddha and 

 made the Five Demands, but was again repulsed. Finally Devadatta 

 caused a schism in the Order by persuading five hundred monks to 

 make common cause with him, but Sariputta and Moggallana convinced 

 them of the error of their ways by preaching and performing miracles 

 before them, and returned with them through the air. When the 

 Teacher saw Sariputta returning with this splendid retinue, he re- 

 marked that this was not the first time he had done so, and related 

 the Lakkhana Jataka. 26 (141-4) 



During the Teacher's residence at Rajagaha, he related many Jata- 

 kas about Devadatta's evil deeds in previous existences. For example 

 when the monks told him that Devadatta was imitating him, he related 

 the Viraka, Kandagalaka, and Virocana Jatakas ; with reference to his 

 ungratefulness, he related the Javasakuna Jataka ; commenting on his 

 wickedness, he told the Kurunga Jataka ; hearing the remark that 

 Devadatta had renounced the joys of the householder's life only to 

 fall away from the estate of a monk, he told the Ubhatobhattha Jataka. 

 The Teacher then retired from Rajagaha to Savatthi and took up his 

 residence at Jetavana Monastery. (144-6) 



Devadatta suffered from sickness for nine months, at the end of 

 which, realizing that his end was near, he was overwhelmed with re- 

 morse, and resolved to make his peace with the Teacher. So he caused 

 himself to be carried on a litter to Jetavana. The Teacher refused to 

 see him. When Devadatta raised himself from the litter and assumed 

 a sitting posture with both feet resting on the ground, the earth gave 

 way under his feet,' and slowly swallowed him up. As his jaws touched 

 the earth, he cried out, " I seek refuge in Buddha ; " whereupon the 

 Teacher made him a monk, prophesying that at the end of a hundred 

 thousand cycles of time he would be reborn as a Private Buddha named 

 Atthissara. After the earth had swallowed up Devadatta, he was re- 



26 Ja. i. 142. Chalmers remarks: "Unlike this Jataka, the Vinaya . . . 

 gives a share of the credit to Moggallana." But elsewhere (Ja. iv. 158, 

 lines 3-4) the Jataka distinctly says that it was Sariputta and Moggallana. 



