Buddha, that is Siddhartha, was at this time only ten years old.
(9) The young Sakyas were shooting when the prince thus surpassed them all.

He was then seventeen.
(10) This was not the night when he finally fled from Kapilavastu, and as he was leaving the palace, perceiving his sleeping father, and said, "Father, though I love thee, yet a fear possesses me, and I may not stay;"-- The Life of the Buddha, p.25.Most probably it was that related in M.B., pp.

199-204.

See "Buddhist Birth Stories," pp.

120-127.
(11) They did this, I suppose, to show their humility, for Upali was only a Sudra by birth, and had been a barber; so from the first did Buddhism assert its superiority to the conditions of rank and caste.
Upali was distinguished by his knowledge of the rules of discipline, and praised on that account by Buddha.