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Here again the above particulars are repeated, being- quotation, 

 from the text of the Buddhawanso. This quotation is also in verse, 

 but is less detailed, though substantially the same as the preceding. 

 The commentary then proceeds, as in the instance of the Buddho Ka- 

 kusandho, first to give in prose the remaining particulars connected 

 with the Buddhohood of Konagamano, and then to quote the passages 

 from the text of the Buddhawanso as propounded by Sakya. I avail 

 myself in this instance of a short quotation from the text of the Bud' 

 dhawanso as the revelation it contains is both concise and comprehen- 

 sive. 



" I was at that period the monarch Pabbato, powerful by my allies and minis- 

 ters, as well as by my numerous armies. Having waited upon Buddho, (K6na'ga- 

 mano) and attended to his supreme dhammo, and after obtaining the permission of 

 that vanquisher and his priesthood, having presented them every offeriug'wished 

 for, for refreshment, I presented also the shawls with rough surfaces, China silks, 

 shawls made of the silk of silk-worms, blankets, and slippers embroidered with gold, 

 to the divine sage and his disciples. The said Muni seated in the midst of his 

 priesthood thus predicted of me. ' Within this Bhaddakappo this individual will 

 become Buddho/ " 



Here the commentator, Buddhaghoso, notes that he has omitted some 

 portions of the revelations which were probably not strictly applicable 

 to the subject under illustration, and resumes Sa'kya's discourse as 

 follows : 



"On hearing this prediction of his (K6na'gamano's) I (Sa'kya) exceedingly 

 rejoiced, instantly resolved to fulfil, thereafter, the ten probationary courses. Seek, 

 ing, therefore, the gift of omniscience, presenting alms to the chief of men (Kona'- 

 gamano) I entered into priesthood in the fraternity of that vanquisher, abdicating 

 my empire.'' 



After again omitting an interesting portion of the revelation, not 

 connected with the subject under consideration, the commentary pro- 

 ceeds as follows with the quotation from the text of the Buddhawanso. 



" Sobhito was his city—and S6bh6 the name of the ruling monarch : that Bud- 

 dho's father's family dwelt in that city. The father of that Buddho, the divine sage 

 K6na'gamano was the brahman Yonnadatto, and his mother Uttara'. His 

 chief disciples were Bih6so and Uttaro; and his assistant disciple Sotthijo ; his 

 chief priestesses Samudda and Uttara / , and the sacred tree of that Bhagawa 

 was the udumbaro. In his stature, the Buddho was thirty cuhits, and he was 

 invested with a golden glory like the flames issuing from a blacksmith's forge. The 

 term of existence of the Buddho was thirty thousand years. During that period, he 

 rescued great multitudes (from the misery of transmigration). Having established 

 dhammo, as (firmly as) a cJietiyo which is decorated with the embellishments of 

 dhammo, and with garlands of the flowers of dhammo— he, together with his disciples, 

 attained nibbanan. His miraculous essence, as well a3 his disciples, and his pro- 

 mulgated dhammo, all vanished in as much as all that is transitory is perishable." 

 The genealogy of the twenty-fourth Buddho Kassapo. 



" Subsequent to K6na'gamano, the Buddho Kassapo, the chief of bipeds 

 the raja of dhammo and the author of light — having bestowed largely in alms, and 

 having conferred charity extensively and consoled the destitute, relinquishing (the 



