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events. The illustration of these three portions of the history, in a manner to he 

 readily comprehended, would be an important work. Those who attend thereto and 

 acquire a knowledge thereof from the commencement would lay up a store of valuable 

 knowledge. I shall therefore enter upon the exposition of these niddndni. rendering 

 (their imports) mauifest. Therein (in the study of this exposition) due notice 

 should be taken of the division of the three niddndni. 



"The nature (of the three niddndni) may be thus briefly explained : the history 

 extending from the age in which the sacred assurance was vouchsafed to the Maha- 

 satto* at the feet of Di'pankaro Buddhof, until by his death in the charac- 

 ter of Wessantaro, he was regenerated in the Tdwatinsa ddwaloko, is called the 

 Dure niddndn or the history of remote antiquity. The history extending from the 

 translation by death from Tdwatinsa to the attainment of omniscience at the foot of 

 the Bodhi, is called the awidure-niddndn or comparatively modern history. The 

 contemporaneous history contains records such as this, * at such a period Bhagawa' 

 dwells at Sdioatthi, at the Jkaioanno wiharo, an edifice belonging to Anatho, a 

 dispenser of charity :' ' he dwells at Rdjagahan at the Weluwano wiharo (the wiharo 

 in a bamboo grove) at which the squirrels are regularly fed,' ' he dwells at Wtsdli in 

 the Ktitdgdra hall in the great wilderness.' In this manner whatever intervenes 

 ^rom the attainment of omniscience at the foot of the Bodhi tree, until his deathbed 

 (scene) in obtaining mahd parinibbdnan, whatever takes place in the interval, be it 

 understood that wherever he may have tarried, is included under the santike-niddndn, 

 resident or contemporaneous history. In these few words an explanation exclu- 

 sively of three niddndni, viz. dure, awidure and santike has been afforded." 



I now proceed to quote from the AtthakatJid on the Dw4wisati-bud- 

 dhawanso or the genealogy of the twenty-second Buddha. 



" From the kappo in which the Syambhu, Wessabhu, attained parinibbdnan during 

 twenty-nine kappe, no luminaries J like suns, the vanquishers of darkness, appeared. 

 In this present Bhadda kappo§ four Buddha have already appeared ; viz. Kakus- 

 andho, Kona'gamo, Kassapo and our own Buddho (Go'tamo). The Bhagawd 

 Metteyyo will be born hereafter. As this kappo is destined to cpmprize the manifes- 

 tation of five Buddhd, it has been designated a Buddha kappo by Bhagawa'. 



" Of these, Kakusandho having fulfilled his probationary destinies, and been 

 regenerated in the Tusitapura (Dewdldkd), after death there, he was conceived in the 

 ■womb of Wisakha the principal wife of Aggidatto, the Prohito brahman, who was 

 the instructor in the tenets and doctrines of his faith, of the raja Khe'mo in the 

 Khimanagara. 



'* Whenever rajas uphold, reverence, make offerings and render homages to, the 

 brahmans, the B6dhisattd\\ are born in the brahman tribe ; and whenever the brah- 

 mans uphold, reverence, make offerings and render homage to the rajas, then they 

 are born in the raja tribe. 



" At this period the brahmans were receiving the services and homage of the rajas, 

 and on that account the illustrious personage, who was the true Kakusandho 

 was manifested in a pure brahman tribe, endowed with prosperity and greatness, 

 causing the hundred Chakkawaldni, of which the perishable universe is composed, 



* The name of Buddho prior to his attaining Buddhohood, literally " the great 

 mortal." 

 •f* Vide Mahawanso, p. xxxii. 

 X Supreme Buddha. 

 § From the root Bhaddi excellence, 

 || Individuals destined to be supreme Buddha, 



