468 Captain Caapman on the City of Anardjapura 
freed from all worldly desires through the virtue of the same; had caused 
the gods of ten thousand worlds to disappear as if hurled away by a whirl- 
wind ; and as he, Bupuu, could make no offering to the said tree, he had for 
the whole of the second week gazed at the same without closing his eyes, 
and promised that during the rest of his (Bupuv’s) reign, viz. for five thou- 
sand years, the same should be a protection of all the gods, and procure 
for them the fulfilment of all their desires.”...... 
** The king Darmaséca, after having put a screen round about the holy 
tree, ascended the golden ladder, and put a stripe of vermilion with a gold 
pencil on the right bough of the holy tree; on which the bough was sepa- 
rated as if it was cut asunder by a saw, because of the king’s prayer and 
the predestination of Bupuu.”...... ‘On the day the tree was to be planted 
upon the ground previously prepared for it, the tree went off by itself from 
the golden vessel where it stood, and ascended into the sky as high as 
eighty cubits from the ground, and it produced rays of light of different 
colours, which gave light as far as the heaven called Bréhmaléca ; and in 
this manner the tree stood in the sky until sunset. Amongst the men who 
had received this miracle, a thousand souls were converted, became Bupuu 
priests, and obtained the state of Réhat, or the power of performing miracles 
of appearing in the air and passing invisibly from place to place. Soon 
after sunset, the holy tree descended from the sky and set itself upon the 
ground prepared for it in the orchard Mahdmée-dmah, and in the reign of 
Duarmasoéca the Eighteenth. On this occasion the earth swelled up and 
roared, and there appeared many other miracles also. Afterwards jive 
branches of this holy tree produced five fruits; when they had fallen down, 
they were planted and moistened with the consecrated water called Pirit- 
peu. Each of these fruits produced eight sprouts, altogether forty sprouts, 
which were planted at forty different places and worshipped.”* 
In the Réjaratndcari we find, “ Before the coming of Bupuu, and before 
his religion was promulgated, the island was the abode of devils; but when 
his religion was preached and followed, it became the abode of men. Some 
Bupuus who undertook that service, although they in person did not leave 
* Iam unwilling to make many extracts from works which will soon be in the hands of the 
public, and have in consequence selected that from the Mahdvansi ; but in the account of the 
reign of king Duarmasoca, given in the Rdjaratndcart, p. 115, &c., the transfer of the Bo-tree 
is detailed at greater length. It is there called the Bo-tree, or Bodin Vahansé, and Dacshind Sré 
Bodin Vahansé, and Sri Mahé Bodin Vahansé, as well as Jéyé Maha Bodin Vahansé. 
