35) in "The Life of the Buddha" is:--"Buddha went to where lived the naga king Muchilinda, and he, wishing to preserve him from the sun and rain, wrapped his body seven times round him, and spread out his hood over his head; and there he remained seven days in thought." So also the Nidana Katha, in "Buddhist Birth Stories," p.
109.
(9) This was Brahma himself, though "king" is omitted.

What he requested of the Buddha was that he would begin the preaching of his Law.

Nidana Katha, p.

111.
(10) See chap.

xii, note 10.
(11) The other accounts mention only two; but in M.B., p.