2 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [January 1908. 
disperse. He himself re-enters the “ perfumed chamber,” and, “if 
he so eine lies down for a time on his right side, like a lion. 
This terminates the first portion of the afternoon. During the 
forth on the world. In the third part the people living near the 
nastery in which the Buddha happens to be dwelling come in 
their best clothes, bringing perfumes, flowers and so on. Then the 
Buddha goes to the Dhammasabha and delivers an apposite 
harangue on Dhamma to the assembled multitude ; after which the 
people pay him their respects and go. This ends the afternoon 
duties (pacchabhattakiccam). Thereafter, if he desired to bathe, 
he would enter the nahana-kotthaka or bathroom, and his special 
attendant would get ready for him the Buddha-seat in the 
dhakuti-cell Neopet ardor After telling us how the 
Bhagava passed the first two watches of the night sitting on 
his special seat, the Biographer informs us that the last watch was 
divided into three parts. During the first, being tired with so 
much sitting, he would pace up and down, In the second part 
i gandhalutin pavisitva dakkhinena passena sato sampajdno sthasey- 
yam kappet:.” In the third part the Buddha rises to survey the 
world and find out who, through meritorious deeds in the time of 
a Ce Buddha, has made himself deserving of reward. 
the 15th section of the same work (p. 7 of the P.T.S. 
edition) occurs a paragraph so interesting that I translate it in 
toto. It describes the doings of Ananda upon his visit to Savatthi 
with a md of five hundred monks after the Parinibbina of the 
Tathagata. The inhabitants come out to meet him wit umes, 
garlands, and the like, “ Reverend Ananda,” say they, “ formerly 
you used to come with the Blessed One, but now where have you 
left the Buddha to come here ?” Uttering remarks of this kind 
they wept, anda mighty lamentation arose like to that on the day of 
the Parinibbana of the Blessed Buddha. “ Thereupon the venerable 
nanda having consoled the multitude with a homily dealing with 
the aaeinetcney: of es and such like entered the Jetavana and 
he Gandhakuti once dwelt in by him of the ten 
powers ie ee vasitagandhakutim) opened the door, took 
down the chair and dusted it thoroughly, swept out the Gandha- 
kuti, threw away the see of the faded garlands, moved about 
the chair and the bed and then put them back in their proper 
Una ~ ane icera all the round of duties that had to be per- 
ed i e lifetime of the Blessed One. And whilst he was 
air nce pry at the times for sweeping out the bathroom, 
setting the water ready and so on, he would salute the Gandhakuti 
and say: ‘‘ Lo, Blessed One, now is your time for washing, now 
is the time for expounding the Law, now is the time for haranguing 
the mendicants, now is the time for lying down like a lion, now 
i i on. In such ways 
as this, he performed his tasks weeping bitterly. This was because 
— arose in his heart through his being acquainted with the 
mbrosial essence of the host of virtues (read gunaganédmatarasa— 
fiiutdya) of the Blessed One, and likewise because he was not yet 
