284 On the Ordination of a Burmese Priest of Bubp’ 14. 
abide by the law; eighth, to listen to the preaching of the same; ninth, to desire to 
continue in the straight road (to virtue); tenth, divinity, law, the ministers of religion, 
and things belonging to it; one’s parents, teacher, old people, and people of wealth 
and respectability: all these are to be honoured. 
(30) In the next life, the rhahdn in question may rise to a higher grade of being, and 
return to the same for ten thousand returns of life; and should he become a man, he 
will have every thing that is good, and be provided for as if he had a tree which pro- 
duces all the necessaries of life at the wish. The man who offers the thing to the priest 
will have his corresponding good fortune also. 
It seems strange that there is not throughout the book any mention made of a certain 
fancy entertained amongst the Burmans, and looked upon by some as the thing most to 
be desired, viz. Nirvan, or annihilation. 
Observation by the Rev. Dr. Morrison, referred to in Mr. Knox's Letter, p. 211. 
On Note 1.—The translation is too much Anglicized to be satisfactory as to its fidelity. 
Buddhists speak not of a ‘Creator of the universe,” or the “ children of God.” The 
translation is not only Anglicized, but also Christianized. 
There is much that is very interesting in this MS. 
R. M. 
Canton, Nov. 12, 1830. 
