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probation, I endured severe trials. I am Gotomo' Buddho the saviour of living 

 beings. By me the supremacy of dh ammo was proclaimed at hipalanau (in Bdrdnasi 

 the capital) q{ the king Brahmadatto. Ka/lito* and UPATissof are my two chief 

 disciples ; and A'nando is my (Upatako) confidential disciple who always lived with 

 me. Khe'ma and Uppalala wanna were my two chief priestesses. Chitto and 

 Hatta'lawako) were my principal attendants among male lay ascetics. Nandama'- 

 TA'and Uttara' were my principal attendants among female lay ascetics. I attained 

 supreme Buddhohood at the foot of the Assattha tree. The glory (around my head) casts 

 its effulgence sixteen cubits high, and the term of my existence is designed to be one 

 hundred}: years. In the course of that existence I am destined to save multitudes; 

 and for the guidance of posterity having established dhdmmo as a beacon, I shall also, 

 at no distant period, together with my sacerdotal fraternity in this very world, attain 

 nibbdnan, like fire extinguished by the exhaustion of fuel.' 



" Having in this manner expounded the whole of the Buddhawanso, explanatory of 

 the Kappd, of the names (of persons and places), of the genealogies and other parti- 

 culars, perambulating on the Ratanachankamo, which he had created at Kapilawat- 

 thu ; and having received the reverential obeisance of his relations, descending from 

 the air (on which the Ratanachankamo was poised), Bhagawa' took his seat on the 

 pre-eminent Buddho's throne which had been prepared for him. 



'•' On Bha'ga'wa', the saviour, having thus seated himself, his assembled relations 

 relieved from their (previous) distress§, with perfect unanimity seated themselves 

 also around him. Thereupon a Pokkhara shower descended, which was instantly 

 absorbed through the fissures of the earth. Those who wished to get wet, did get 

 wet. Those who did not wish to get wet, did not receive a drop of rain. On beholding 

 this, surprised by the miracle and wonder, they exclaimed ' Lo ! what miracle, what 

 wonder!' On hearing this exclamation, T ath a 'gato observed, ' It is not only now, 

 on the occasion of my relations being assembled that a Pokkhara shower has fallen ; 

 it has so rained in aforetime also.' Making that subject his text, he preached the 

 Wessuntarajdtako\\ ; and it produced its effect. Bhaga'wa then rising from his 

 pulpit retired to his Wihdro. 



"Be it understood, that the eighteen gatd commencing with the words ' apari- 

 meyye ito kappe, chaturo dsinsu ndyakd,' (at a period incalculably remote from this 

 kappo, there were four Buddha) are gathd composed by those who held the convoca- 

 tion^. All the information contained in the rest of the gdthd (of the Buddhawanso) 

 needs no commentary. 



" Thus is closed the Madhura atthawildsiniyd Buddhawansatthakathd being a com- 

 mentary on the Gotomo Buddhawanso, the history of the twenty-fifth Buddho." 



N. B. The distance from which I communicate with you deprives me of the pri- 

 vilege of correcting the press. It is not my intention to trouble you with a list of 

 errata, but there is one error, produced by my own carelessness in giving to my 

 clerk an inaccurate genealogical table to extract from, which I must be permitted to 

 rectify, as it materially affects the question under investigation, page 715, vol. 6, 

 for "paternal grandson" read " son.'' In page 51, of the Introduction to the Maha- 

 wanso, it is explained how this error was committed. 



* Subsequently called Moggalano. f Sariputto. 



$ All Buddha are released from existence before the period of extreme old age in 

 their respective terms of existence. 



§ Being of a royal and reigning family they had remonstrated as already explained, 

 with Buddho, on his leading the life of a mendicant pilgrim, instead of being respec- 

 tably maintained by them. 



]| A discourse in the Jdtakan, a section of the Suttapitako narrative of Buddho's 

 incarnation in the character of Wessantaro raja. 



Tf This occurred at the first convocation held after Sa'kya's death . 5 k 2 



