!S38.] Pali Buddhistical Annals. 697 



" Descendants of Wa/settho ! the said individual having replied to those persons, 



* Friends ! be it so!' he most fully annihilated that which should be annihilated ; 

 degraded most fully that which should be degraded ; and rejected that which should 

 be expelled ; and they conferred on him a portion of their s&li. 



11 Thus the great body of mankind having (sammato) resolved or elected ; and 

 the party elected being thence called ' Maha-sammato,' the first name conferred was 



* Maha-sammato* ,' (the great elect;) and being also the lord of (' KhettdnV ) 



* cultivated lands ;' he secondly acquired the appellation of ' Khattiyo'f and as by 

 his righteous administration it is considered that he (' rangttV) ' rendered (mankind) 

 happy,' thence, descendants of Wa'settho ! the appellation of ' raja' was thirdly 

 acquired. 



" Thus it was, descendants of Wa'settho! that on this race of ' Khattiyo? that 

 illustrious appellation was bestowed, as its ancient original designation. They are 

 descendants of the same, not of a different (stock) of mankind ; and of a perfect 

 (original) equality, not of inequality ; (exalted) by a righteous, not an unrighteous, 

 act. Descendants of Wa'settho, whether among people in this world, or the other 

 world, righteousness (dhanmoj is supreme. 



" Descendants of Wa'settho ! to a portion of the same people, this thought 

 occurred. 'Friends! among mankind wickedness has descended ; theft, degrada- 

 tion, fraud, punishment and expulsion have appeared. It will be most proper that 

 we should (' bh&hSyana) ' suppress' wicked and impious acts ; and they accordingly 

 did (' bhdhenh'J ' suppress' wicked and impious acts. 



" Descendants of Wa'settho ! those ' brdhman&' (' suppressors or eradicators') 

 hence derived their first name ' brdhmantiS " 



The revelation proceeds to explain how the brdhmand acquired 

 secondly the appellation ' Jhdyaka from their (* Jhdyenti) * exulting' 

 in the wild life they were leading", in leaf huts built in the wilderness ; 

 and thirdly, the appellation * Ajjh&yaJcd' from their ' ceasing to exult' 

 in that life ; and to explain also that, as in the Khdttiyo caste they are 

 no other than a division of the same tribe, who were in all respects on 

 a footing of original equality. 



11 Descendants of Wa'settho ! the portion of mankind who had formed domestic 

 connections, (and built houses for themselves) became^' Wissutakammante') 'distin- 

 guished as skilful workmen or artificers,' and in consequence of their becoming 

 distinguished from their domestic ties and skilfulness, the appellation of ' Wessa* 

 was obtained." 



Buddho then, in the same manner, explains that the Wessd also 

 are a portion of the original stock, and repeats the circumstances 

 under which they successively lost the advantages originally enjoyed 

 by mankind. 



" Descendants of Wa'settho ! among those very individuals there were some 

 persons who were addicted to hunting (luddd). Descendants of Wa'settho ! from 

 being called ' luddd' ' luddd 1 the appellation ' suddd' was formed. It was thus that 

 to this elass or caste of suddd that name was originally given.'' 



* This individual was Sa'kya in one of his former incarnations. 

 t " Ksettriya" according to the Hindus is the military, or warrior caste which 

 with them is the second class, the ' Brahman' being the first. 

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