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and maintained preachers, in the various wiharas, in all c- 

 parts of his dominions. ' All these acts,' said the dying 1 

 king, ' done in my days of prosperity, afford no comfort 

 to me now ; but two offerings which I made when 

 in affliction and in adversity, disregardful of my own 

 fate, are those which alone administer solace to me.' l 

 After this, the pre-eminently wise Maharaja expired, 

 stretched on his bed, in the act of gazing on the 

 Hahathupo." 2 """* 



1 Mahawatiso, ch, xxxii. 



2 Another name for the Ruanwelle dagoba, which he had built. 



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