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to glorify him, and to quake (with joy) ; and, in the manner before described, mira- 

 cles were performed. 



" At the termination of ten months, he issued from his mother's womb, like a flame 

 of fire from a golden furnace, and lived the life of a layman, maintaining domestic 

 relations for four thousand years. He had three palaces called Ruchi, Suruchi and 

 Wadhand ; and an establishment of thirty thousand females, of whom the brahman 

 R6chini was his principal consort. 



M Having (already) been visited with the four prescribed warnings, at the birth of 

 his illustrious son Uttaro by the brahman R6chini, he took his final departure, in 

 his state car drawn by six high bred horses, and entered into the priesthood : — in 

 pursuance of whose example forty thousand persons also entered into the priest- 

 hood. 



" Attended by them, having for eight months undergone the probationary ordeals, 

 on the full moon day of the month of Wesako, having partaken of the sweet rice 

 boiled in milk for him by the daughter of the brahman Wajarudo, in the brahman 

 village Sucharindo ; and having taken his noon rest in the Khadira wilderness, in 

 the afternoon, accepting from one Subhaddho, a corn-grower, eight handsful of 

 grass, and approaching the Sirisa (the sirisa acacia) his sacred tree, which was 

 exhaling a heavenly fragrance similar to that of the pdtali before described, and 

 spreading out a sward carpet thirty-four cubits in breadth, seating himself on that 

 throne he achieved supreme Buddhohood. 



11 Having chaunted forth the uddnan (hymn of joy) and passed there seven time? 

 seven days, satisfying himself that the forty thousand bhikkhus who had been ordained 

 with himself were qualified to comprehend the sachapatiwede (the four sublime truths 

 of Buddhism), he repaired in a single day to Isipatanan, an edifice nea» which no 

 living creature could be deprived of life, situated in the neighbourhood of Malehilana- 

 gara (Benares), and in the midst of those disciples he proclaimed the supremacy of 

 his faith." 



After detailing' some further particulars of the early acts of Kaku- 

 sandho the commentary proceeds thus : 



" At that period our Bodhisatto (Sakya) existed in the person of the (reigning) 

 monarch named Khemo ; and presented alms, dishes, robes and (other) established 

 alms-offerings to the priesthood of whom the Buddho (Kakusandho) was the 

 chief; and provided sandal-wood and medical drugs, bestowing also sacerdotal gifts. 

 Attending to his doctrinal discourses he became a convert (to Buddhism) and was 

 ordained a priest in the fraternity of that Bhagawa. The divine teacher (Kaku- 

 sandho) predicted to him that he would hereafter, within this kappo, himself be- 

 come a Buddho. 



" The native city of this enlightened Kakusandho Bhagawa was Khemana- 

 garan : his father was the brahman Aggidatto and his mother the brahman 

 Wisakha. His chief disciples were Widhuro and Sanjino : his Upatthdyako 

 (assistant disciple) was Buddhiyo ; his two chief priestesses were Saina and 

 Champacha ; his sacred tree the Mahasirisa : his stature forty cubits, the effulgence 

 of his glory extended ten ydjand around ; the term of his existence was forty thousand 

 years ; his consort (while he was a layman) was the brahman Rochini ; his son 

 Uttaro, and he departed (on severing himself from lay connections) , in his car drawn 

 by horses of the a j anna breed." 



Then follows a metrical repetition of the foregoing; particulars quot- 

 ed from the Buddhawanso itself, and other details connected with 

 Kakusandho to the end of that chapter, which it is unnecessary to 

 adduce in this place. 

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