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39. — NANDA ON THE BURIED GOLD.
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When the Teacher had finished this discourse, showing how formerly also he had behaved the same, he established the connexion, and summed up the Jātaka, "At that time Nanda was the monk under Sāriputta, but the wise squire was I myself."
END OF THE STORY OF NANDA ON THE BURIED GOLD.[1]
- ↑ In the so-called Æsop's Fables are several on the text that a haughty spirit goeth before a fall; for instance, 'The Charger and the Ass,' 'The Bull and the Frog,' and 'The Oats and the Reeds'; but this is the only story I know directed against the pride arising from the temporary possession of wealth.
