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Rh life of a hermit, was living at the foot of that same mountain.

Now one day a dispute arose between the friends about the cold. The tiger said it was cold in the dark half of the month, the lion said it was cold in the light half. And as neither of them could solve the difficulty, they asked the Bodisat, and he uttered this stanza:

"It is whenever the wind blows, In the dark half or in the light. For cold is caused by wind: and so You both are right."

Thus the Bodisat pacified the two friends.

When the Master had finished this discourse ("Formerly also," etc.), he proclaimed the Truths. And at the close thereof the two brethren were established in the Fruit of Conversion. The Master made the connexion, and summed up the Jātaka: "He who was then the tiger was Dark, the lion Light, but the ascetic who answered the question was I myself.

END OF THE STORY ABOUT THE WIND.