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250 When the Bodisat saw this, he thought as before, sent for the charioteer, and lying as he was, uttered this stanza:

"At every time, in every place, Whate'er may chance, whate'er mischance, The thoroughbred's still full of fire! 'Tis a hack horse who then gives in!"

The charioteer helped the Bodisat up, harnessed him, broke through the seventh line, and bringing the seventh king with him, drove up to the king's gate and took out the horse.

The Bodisat, lying there on his side, exhorted the king as before, and then breathed his last. The king performed funeral rites over his body, did honour to the charioteer, ruled his kingdom with righteousness, and passed away according to his deeds.

When the Teacher had finished the discourse, he proclaimed the Truths, and summed up the Jātaka (that monk having obtained Arahatship after the Truths) by saying, "The king of that time was Ānanda, the horse the Supreme Buddha."

END OF THE STORY OF THE THOROUGHBRED.