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reproduced in Duggati (a minor hell) in which men are reproduced in the form of 

 animals, they are not born there a diminutive creature (smaller than a snipe) ; nor 

 when produced among the human race, are they ever born blind, nor do they lose 

 *heir hearing or become dumb. These selected Buddha moreover are neither pro- 

 duced in the form of women, of ordinary hermaphrodites, or of hermaphrodites who 

 periodically alternate their sex. Exempt from all misfortunes they are pure in their 

 mode of subsistence— avoid heretics and are observant of pious conduct : though they 

 may be born among the Suivaggd, they are never reproduced in the Brahmaloko asa- 

 nasatto (as the term of existence there would be too long) ; and they do not possess 

 the qualification (of the arahat sanctification) which would involve their reproduction 

 in the Suddhdwdsa brahmaloko (from whence they would never return to the human 

 world). These righteous individuals, forsaking all worldly advantages, and released 

 from the bonds of eternity, perform their pilgrimage for the welfare of the world, 

 fulfilling their probationary courses.' 



" He who was thus proceeding in the prescribed course of his destiny, having at- 

 tained these (eighteen) attributes, and having thus reached his penultimate awatdr in 

 the person of Wessantaro (thex'aja of Jetutaranagaran one of the twenty- five great 

 cities of Jambudipo) thus spoke. * This earth devoid of the power of discrimination 

 and unconscious of its blessings and its curses, has been made to quake seven times 

 by the merit of my charities.' 



«* Having thus performed those great acts of charity which caused the earth to quake 

 at the close of his prescribed term of existence, from hence he was translated, by 

 death, into the realms of Tusitapura. While the Buddho elect was sojourning in 

 Tnsitapura the haldhalan (tumult) that precedes the advent of every Buddh© came 

 to pass. 



" In each creation there are three such turaults^-they are these : the Kappa -haldha- 

 lan, the Buddha-haldhalan and the Chakkawatti-haldhalan. It is a proclamation, that 

 at the termination of one hundred thousand years, the kappo perishes. The d£wa 

 called Kdmawachard, with loosened topknot, and dishevelled hair, and with bewail- 

 ing countenances — wiping their tears with their hands— clad in red vestments, and 

 assuming the most revolting form*, wandering through the human world, thus pro- 

 mulgate their warnings : ' Blessed ! at the termination of one hundred thousand 

 years from this date, the kappo is 1 to perish : this world will then be destroyed : 

 the great ocean will be completely dried up. This great earth and sirSnu (sum£ru), the 

 monarch of mountains, will be consumed by fire and utterly destroyed ; and the world 

 will be annihilated as far as the brahmaloko : blessed I embue thyselves with benevo- 

 lence: blessed! impress thyselves with compassion, universal love and strict justice ; 

 comfort thy father and mother, and reverence the elders of your tribes.' This is 

 called the kappa-haldhalan. 



n Again it is proclaimed that at the terminatiouof one thousand years an omniscient 

 Buddho will be born in the world. The DSwatd who protect the world, wander 

 through it, proclaiming, ' blessed 1 Buddho will be manifested in the world a 

 thousand years from this period.' This is called the Buddha-haldhalan. 



" Lastly it is proclaimed that, at the termination of a hundred years, a Chakdwatti 

 raja will be born. The Dewatd, who are the tutelars of the world, wander through 

 it proclaiming ' blessed! at the termination of a hundred years a Chakkawatti raja 

 will be born.' This is called the Chakkawatti-haldhalan. 



" Among these, when the proclamation of the Buddha-haldhalan is heard, all the 

 Dewatd of the ten thousand Chakkawalane assemble at one place, and having ascer- 

 tained who the human being is who will become Buddho— repairing to him they 

 invoke him. These invokers, however, only address their petition to him on his 

 manifesting the pubbanimitte (indications of approaching death in the Dewaldko), 



