700 Pali Buddhistical Annals. [Aug, 



" From the gathering of the destroying cloud to the termination of the fierce 

 deluge that destroyed the kappo constitutes one Asankheyyan. 



" From the termination of the deluge to the rains that reproduced the world, is 

 the second Asankheyyan. 



ft From the great rains that reproduced the earth to the appearance of the 

 sun and moon is the third Asankheyyan. 



" From the reappearance of the sun and moon to the gathering again of the cloud 

 of destruction is the fourth Asankheyyan. 



"■ These four Asankheyyani constitute a mahd-kappo, and be it understood, such 

 is the destruction by water, and the reproduction. 



" Whenever the kappo is destroyed by the wind, be it known, that, as already 

 explained in the other cases in detail, the mighty destroying cloud gathers. The 

 difference in this instance also occurs at the stage in which the two suns appear, as 

 in those instances, thus here the storm destined to destroy the kappo then rises. 



"In the first place, it raises a dust; then it drives before it by degrees a still 

 heavier dust ; then light sand, heavy sand, pebbles, and so on, till it hurls on rocks 

 as large as houses. In the same manner it tears up great trees. All these once 

 raised from the earth never descend again, being converted into impalpable atoms, 

 they are completely absorbed. 



" Then, in due course, the wind under the earth rising and spinning the world 

 topsy turvy, hurls it into the air. Portions of the world being one hundred ydjand, 

 two, three, four and five hundred yojand in extent, are rent asunder, and tossed 

 about by the power of the wind, till reduced to the minutest particles, they also 

 become absorbed. The tempest then raising also aloft the Chakkawalun and 

 Mahdmeru mountain, tosses them likewise into the air. They, hurled against each 

 other, and battered to minute atoms, also vanish. By this means destroying, as 

 well the habitations of the earth and the habitations (of the dewos) of the skies, as 

 the six Kannawdchara-dewalokd ; the tempest annihilates the hundred thousand 

 hotiyo of Chakkawaldni also. One ChakkawAlan being dashed against another 

 Chakkowdlan, one Himawanto (snowy region) against another, and one Mem 

 mountain against another ; and being involved in a general chaos, and reduced to 

 minute atoms, all perish, 



" The storm extends from the earth to the regions of the third jhdnan and three 

 Brdhmaloko having been involved in that destruction, the tempest is arrested on 

 reaching the Wehapphalo -brdhmaloko. 



" Thus every perishable thing having perished (the tempest) itself perishes also. 

 As described (in the other accounts of the destructions of the world) every circum- 

 stance takes place in this also, commencing with, by the vacuum below (the world 

 being destroyed) meeting the vacuum above ; and one universal darkness prevails. 



" Subsequently the world is reproduced, commencing with the Subhakinno- 

 brdhmaloko, and living creatures dying (in due course) in Wehapphalo -brdhmaloko, 

 are reproduced in the Subhakinno and other regions. 



"In this instance, the period from the gathering of the cloud of destruction, 

 to the rising of the tempest that destroys the kappo, is one Asankheyyan. 



" From the period of the tempest, to the mighty deluge of reproduction, is the 

 second Asankhcyydn, and so forth, in the same subdivisions, the other two Asan- 

 kheyydni. These four Asankheyyani constitute a mahd-kappo. Be it understood, that 

 such is the nature of the destruction by storm. 



" Why is it that the world is destroyed? On account of the original impiety 

 committed. The world is destroyed on account of the commission of the following 

 sins, viz : on the ascendancy of the passions, it (the world) is destroyed by water : 

 some authorities, however, declare that on the prevalence of crimes, the destruction 

 is by fire, and on the ascendancy of the passions by water. And when ignorance 

 prevails, it perishes by the wind. 



