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imperial greatness, with the indifference that he would cast spittle from him, de- 

 parted from his mansion the scat of that regal splendour ; and in quitting the city, 

 on the full moon day of the month Asalhi, during the ascendancy of Uttdrasalhd lunar 

 mansion, he was seized with a desire to gaze on the city. At the instant of being 

 seized with this wish, that portion of the grouud on which (the city stood) spun 

 round, like the potter's wheel. By this means the Buddho elect (without turning 

 round) surveyed Kapiluwalthu from the spot on which he stood, and having noted 

 the spot on which Kanfhako had stood, as the destined site of a chetiyo, he turned 

 Kanthako 1 s head to the direction in which he ought to go. 



" While the elect was proceeding in his journey, with great pomp and pageantry, 

 sixty lakhs of dewatd were preceding him, bearing torches. In the same manner on 

 the right hand side of the pilgrim there were sixty lakhs of torches; and the same 

 on the left. Other dewatd doiDg homage with fragrant flowers and garlands with 

 sandal-wood dust and chambards and flags and pennons, attended him in procession, 

 and kept up the symphony of heavenly song and music. 



11 The elect who was making his progress in pomp such as this, having in the 

 course of the night traversed three kingdoms, and performed a march of thirty 

 yojana, reached the bank of the Anomd river. The elect stopping on the bank of the 

 river thus inquired of Chhanno. What is the name of this river? ' Lord 1 its 

 name is Anomd. 1 Replying ' nor will there be any *Anomd (inferiority) in my 

 ordination,' he pressed his heel to the horse, and gave him the signal to leap. The 

 animal, springing aloft, alighted on the opposite bank of a river ' eight usabha in 

 breadth.' 



" The Euddho elect descending from his steed on a bank of sand, which was like 

 unto a heap of pearls, thus addressed Chhanno ; 'Chhanno, my friend, taking 

 with thee my regal ornaments and my charger Kanthako, depart. I am going to euttr 

 into priesthood.' Chhanno replied, ' Lord ! I will also be ordained.' » It will 

 not be permitted unto thee to enter the priesthood : depart.' Having, in this manner, 

 three times refused his solicitation ; and made over the jewels and Kanthako to him, 

 the elect thus meditated : ' These locks of mine are unsuited to the sacerdotal 

 state ;' and, taking up his superb sharp-edged sword in his right hand, and seizing 

 his tresses together with the diadem on them, chopped them off. The hair was then 

 only two inches long ; and it arranged itself (on his head) curling to the right hand ; 

 and during the rest of his life, his hair remained of the same length. His beard 

 also was proportionate, nor had he occasion to shave any more. 



" The elect then taking up his locks with the tiara attached, threw them up into 

 the air, saying ' If I am to become Buddho let them remain poised in the air ; and 

 if not let them descend.' The tiara knot, rising into the air one yojano in height 

 remained poised there. Thereupon Sakko, the king of the dewd, beholding it with 

 his supernatural eyes, and receiving it into a receptacle in height one yojano, trans- 

 ferred it to the Tdvmtinsa realms, and deposited it in a chetiyo (thence called) tLe 

 Chuldmani. 



" 'Ihe elect then thus meditated : ' these raiments, the fabric of Kdsi, are costly, 

 and unsuited to my sacerdotal condition.' Thereupon Gatika'ro, the great brahman 

 who had formerly, in the time of the Buddho Kassapo, befriended him, out of the 

 friendship that had subsisted during the whole Buddhdntaro, thus resolved : * My 

 friend, on this very day, is about to sever himself finally from lay connections : let 

 me repair to him, taking with me the (indispensiblef portions of the) prescribed 



* This remark involves a pun : — a pun however is by no means a matter of levity 

 in Buddhistical literature, 

 t These articles are indispensible, there are others permissible. 



