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THE BULIS-THE KOLIYAS, ETC.
291 that they would there be provided for by their uncles, who were Śākya nobles. She trained them in the manners of the Sākyas, and they were then allowed to set out. They saluted their parents and went to Kapilavastu. On arriving, the sons of the sage, surrounded by a vast crowd, went to the assembly hall of the Sākyas, where five hundred sākyas were assembled and transacting business. They approached the assembly in the way their mother had taught them. The Sākya assembly was astounded to see the Sākya manners in them, and asked them whence they came. They answered as they had been instructed, 'We are sons of Kola, the royal sage, who has his hermitage somewhere at the foot of the Himālayas. Our mother is the daughter of a certain sākya.' Hearing this, the Sākyas were pleased to learn that the youths were born of the royal sage, and not of some one of inferior rank. Recognising them as Sākyas, they said, 'Let them be given Śākya girls and appointments.' They were given Sākya brides, cultivable lands, and villages. As the princes were sons of the sage Kola, they were known as Koliyas.
It is stated in the Introduction to the Kunāla Jātaka 1 that the Koliyas used to dwell in the Kola tree. Hence they came to be called 'Koliyas' or dwellers in Kola (jujube) trees. When the sākyas wished to abuse the Koliyas, they said that the latter had once 'lived like brute beasts in a hollow Kola tree'. The territories of the Sākyas and Koliyas were adjacent, being separated by the river Rohiņi. A bitter quarrel once arose between the two tribes regarding the right to the waters of the river which irrigated the land on both sides. Incensed by insulting remarks as to their respective origins, the two tribes got themselves ready for battle, and sallied forth at eventide. Now at this time, so the story goes, the Buddha came to the spot from Sāvatthi, and sat cross-legged in the air between the two hosts. The Sākyas recognised him and at once threw down their arms with the words, 'Let the Koliyas slay us or roast us alive.' The Koliyas, on seeing the Buddha, acted in the same way. The Lord instructed them, quelled the feud and brought about a reunion. In gratitude, each tribe dedicated some of its young men to the membership of the Order, and during the Buddha's stay in the neighbourhood, he lived alternately in Kapilavastu and in Koliyanagara.2
1 Jataka, Fausböll, V, p. 413.
2 For details of the quarrel and its results, see Jataka, V, 412ff.; Dhammapada Comm., III, 254ff.; Sumangalavilāsinī, II, 672ff. A variant of the river-motif runs as follows: 'When the female slaves of the Sākyas and Koliyas came to the river to fetch water, and throwing the coils of cloth that they carried on their heads upon the ground, were seated and pleasantly conversing, a certain woman
