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hinda was, too, like a cloud, in sprinkling the water of the 

 Dhamma on the hearts of people which were like seeds, and 

 produced thereby the shoots of happiness. 5 ' 



Then the king obtained from the hands of Asoka, by means 

 of Sumanasamanera, relics which filled a begging bowl used by 

 the Sammasambuddha and the right-collar-bone relic from 

 Sakka, and starting with a stupa on the Cetiya mountain had 

 stupas built at every yojana throughout Lanka, and having 

 enshrined the right-collar-bone relic he had set up over it the 

 Thuparama dagoba. Then he planted the right great bough 

 of the illustrious great Bodhi tree which had been brought by 

 the Theri Saiighamitta, and worshipped it. The details of this 

 story should be seen in the Mahavamsa. 



On account of the sin he had committed in blaming the 

 Paccekabuddha 5 he was born far away, on the farther shore of 

 the sea, and at the same time, for granting the bowl, he became 

 the king of Lanka. 



Reflecting that a sinful action produces the one kind of 

 fruit and a meritorious action another kind of fruit, perform. 

 Sirs, meritorious actions, which cause not sorrow wherever you 



may go (in whatever existence you may be born). 



