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offer garments to priests to do so. Cloth for two upper garments and one 
under garment, needles, thread, jack-tree wood, dowkyat : these articles 
are to be purchased, and taken whilst it is yet night to the neighbourhood 
of the monastery where dwells the priest,* learned in the sacred writings. 
These things are to be put down at the steps; and in order to bring it to 
the knowledge of the priest that they are there, the man who offers them is 
to throw some pebbles against the house from some place of concealment 
hard by. Then the priest, being aroused, will get up, and on coming down 
the steps will perceive the cloth and other things; he must then three times 
enquire, saying, ‘ Is there any owner for these things?” and no owner being 
found, he may then take and put them aside for his own use. After this, 
the man who has been abiding in concealment is to go up into the mo- 
nastery, and petitioning the priest, say, ‘“ My lord, is there any owner for 
the things you took up just now?” ‘The priest answers, ‘‘ There is not.” 
The other then says, “ As that is the case, I will make up the garment for 
you, if you please to let me have it. The rhahan then gives it to him, and 
he takes it to his house, and calls a person who understands how to make 
up these garments, gives him food, superintends the work, and sees that it 
is properly done. When they are made up, he washes, dyes, and hangs 
them in the shade to dry; he then buys a ¢habike, and the rest of the eight 
things necessary, and solicits the attendance of several priests—if in a large 
town twenty, if in a small jungle-village nine. Then on the full of the 
moon Tazownmown he is to take the “ eight articles” to the thyne, and 
there give food to all the priests. Before going to the thyne, the priest to 
whom these eight articles are to be offered is to instruct the man who offers 
them in all that is necessary to be done, and is to inquire if all is right and 
according to the sacred writings. At the ¢hyne, the priest thus addresses 
the others: ‘ My lords, I beg you to attend to what I am going to say. 
These things are brought here to be offered to me, so, in presence of this 
company, I will put on these clothes, and by so doing bind myself to 
observe the rules laid down in the sacred writings (for the wearing of such) ; 
I beg you therefore to take notice.” Then two of the company read from 
this writing, and ask, «‘ The man that offers these things, and has called all 
these priests together, to him and to the priest who receives them, and 
keeps the ordinances in such cases required, to both of these persons what 
* To whom it is intended to offer them, 
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