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9. — THE STORY OF MAKHĀ DEVA.
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hermit in that same Mango-grove, and practised perfect goodwill towards all beings, and again returned to the Brahma heaven.
The Teacher, having thus discoursed on the subject that not then only, but formerly too, the Successor of the Buddhas had abandoned the world, proclaimed the Four Truths. Some entered the First Stage of the Path to Nirvāna, some the Second, some the Third. And when the Blessed One had thus told the double story, he established the connexion, and summed up the Jātaka as follows: "The barber of that time was Ānanda, the prince was Rāhula, but Makhā Deva the king was I myself."
END OF THE STORY OF MAKHĀ DEVA.
