BURLINGAME. — BUDDHAGHOSA's DHAMMAPADA COMMENTARY. 527 



in good works. So they summoned a carpenter, and had him erect a 

 rest-house for the multitude at the junction of four highways. As 

 they had lost all desire for women, they would not allow women to 

 share in the work. (268-9) 



Now there were four women living in Magha's house, Joy, Thought- 

 ful, Goodness, and Wellborn. One day Goodness bribed the carpenter 

 to give her the chief share in the erection of the hall. The carpenter 

 made a pinnacle, cut this inscription on it, " This Hall is named for 

 Goodness," wrapped the pinnacle in a cloth, and laid it aside. When 

 the hall was nearly completed, the carpenter said to his masters, " We 

 have forgotten something." " What is it 1 " said they. "A pinnacle." 

 "Let's get one." "But it's too late to season the wood." "Well, 

 what is to be done?" "Perhaps we might find one ready-made." 

 The carpenter immediately procured the pinnacle he had made for 

 Goodness ; and thus Goodness obtained the chief share in the erec- 

 tion of the hall. (269-270) 



The thirty-three youths prepared thirty-three wooden seats, and 

 entertained visitors handsomely, the elephant going out to meet each 

 arrival and performing the usual courtesies. Magha planted an Ebony- 

 tree near the hall, and under the tree set up a stone seat. Joy 

 provided a lotus tank, and Thoughtful a flower garden. Wellborn, 

 thinking that it was a sufficient distinction to be a cousin of Magha, 

 did nothing but adorn herself. Magha, having fulfilled the Seven 

 Injunctions, was at the end of his allotted term of life reborn in the 

 world of the Thirty-three as Sakka, king of the gods ; Magha's com- 

 panions were also reborn there, as was also the carpenter, who became 

 Vissakamma. (270-272) 



Now at this time there were Asuras dwelling in the world of the 

 Thirty-three ; and when they became aware that some entirely new 

 gods had been born in their midst, they prepared strong drink to wel- 

 come them. Sakka forbade his companions to touch it, and they 

 obeyed him ; but the Asuras got very drunk. Then Sakka gave the 

 signal, and his companions picked up the Asuras by the heels, and 

 flung them down into the abyss. Thereupon there sprang up at the 

 foot of Mount Sineru the Palace of the Asuras and the Tree that is 

 called Pied Trumpet-flower. And when the conflict between the Gods 

 and the Asuras was over, and the Asuras had been defeated, there 

 sprang into existence the City of the Thirty-three, crowned with a 

 magnificent palace called the Palace of Victory. A Coral-tree sprang 

 up to correspond with the Ebony-tree Magha had planted, and at the 

 foot thereof, to correspond with the stone seat he had set up, stood 

 Sakka's Yellowstone Throne. The elephant was reborn as the god 



