________________ The Glory that was Vaisali 137 and a son born into a cleanly house would be sure to grow up cleanly and virtuous. I will make her my queen-consort". And accordingly the King, first assuring himself that she was not another's sent for her and made her bis queen. And she became very near and dear to bim. Not long afterwards a son was born, and this son became an Universal Monarch. Observing her fortunes, the Bodhisattva took occasion to say to the King, "Sire, why should not care be taken duly to fulfil all proper observances, when this excellent woman by her modesty and decency in relieving nature won your majesty's favour and rose to such fortune ?" And he went on to utter this stanza : Learn thou betimes, though headstrong folk there be; The rustic pleased the King by modesty. Thus did the Great Being commend the virtues of those who His story ended, the Master identified the Birth by saying, "The husband and wife of to-day were also the husband and wife of those times, and I the wise courtier". Jataka No. 149, Ekapanna Jataka, was told by the Buddha about a Licchavi prince called Wicked, of Vaigali. In those days Vaigali enjoyed marvellous prosperity. A triple wall encompassed the city, each wall a league distant from the next, and there were three gates with watch-towers. In that city there were always seven thousand seven hundred and seven Kings to govern the kingdom, and a like number of viceroys, generals, and treasurers. Among the kings' sons was one known as Wicked Licchavi Prince, a fierce, passionate and cruel young man, always punishing, like an enraged viper. Such was his passionate nature that no one could say more than two or three words in his presence; and neither parents, kindred, nor friends could make him better. So at last his parents resolved to bring the ungovernable youth to the All-Wise Buddha realising that none but he could possibly tame their son's fierce spirit. So they brougot him to the Master, whom, with due obeisance, they besought to read the youth a lecture. Then the Master addressed the Prince and gave him a sermon. Such was the power of the sermon upon the prince that he lost his pride, arrogance, selfishness and bis heart became kind and loving. Jataka No. 152; i. e., Sigala Jataka was narrated by the Buddha wbile he was staying in his gable chamber, about a barber who lived at Vaisali, whose son fell in love with a Licchavi girl of high birth and 18
