Note 4 — X. UTPALAVARṆĀ.1

His father afterwards said to the western warder, “O friend, give your daughter to my son as his wife.” The other replied, “What does your son want with another wife, seeing that he is already married.” The eastern warder answered, “Inasmuch as we have already agreed thereto, give your daughter to him. As I have sufficient means, I will set the house of my son’s wife on an excellent footing.” So the western warder, in accordance with the agreement, gave his daughter to the eastern warder’s son as his wife. About that time Āyushmant Maudgalyāyana4 came to the eastern warder’s house. And when he saw the warder’s daughter-in-law, he cried, “O daughter, your fellow-wife is your mother. Your husband is your brother. But be not over troubled, and entertain no thoughts about hell.”