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he died at the age of 64 in the eighth of Susunago's reign, which 

 falls to A. B. 80 : having then been an upasampadd 50 years, he must 

 necessarily have been ordained at 14 years of age. But there is mani- 

 festly some trifling error somewhere ; for, by the latter dates he must 

 have been born not A. B. 13, but A. B. 16. 



So'nako was Dasako's successor: he was 40 in the 10th year of 

 Kalasoko's reign, which was A. B. 100 ; he was born therefore 

 in 60, and he is stated to have died at the age of 66 in the sixth of 

 the reign of the Nandos, which falls to A, B. 124. He was therefore 

 only 20 years old when his preceptor died : but it is specifically stated 

 that he had been a learned upasampadd 44 years when he died ; and 

 consequently So'nako also could only have been 16 years when ordained. 

 Siggawo and Chandawo or Chandawajji were the co-disciples 

 and successors of So'nako. Siggawo was 64 years old in the second 

 of Chandagutto's* reign A. B. 164, and he died aged 76 in the 14th 

 of that reign 4.. B. 176. He was born therefore A. B. 100, and yet 

 we are told, that it was in this very year, the 10th of the reign of 

 Kalaso'ko, they were ordained upasampadd, by So'nako. There is 

 a manifest error, therefore, in the term of five years assigned for Sig- 

 gawo's upasampaddship. As his ordaining preceptor So'nako died 

 A. B. 124, he must have been at that time only 24 years old, and at his 

 own death an upasampadd of 76 years' standing, — a term co-equal with 

 his natural life. In various parts of the Atthakatha, and in the 

 fifth chapter of the Mahdivanso likewise it is stated that they were 

 " adult priests" at the time the second convocation was held ; and 

 indeed it is specifically stated in page 30, that Siggawo was 18 years 

 old when he was first presented to So'nako. The pretended prophecy, 

 delivered to him and Chandawajji at the close of that convocation, 

 would consequently be nullified at once, if their birth be not dated 

 anterior to A. B. 100: manifestly, therefore, these dates also are an 

 imposition. 



Lastly, Moggaliputtatisso was their disciple ; he was ordained in 

 the second of Chandagutto A. B. 164, and he was 66 in the sixth 

 of Dhammaso'ko A. B. 220 ; he was born, therefore, in A. B. 154, and 

 could only have been 14 years old at the death of Siggawo, when he 

 became the chief of the Wineyo preceptors. He is stated to have died in 

 the 26th of Dhammaso'ko, A. B. 240, aged 80. This gives A. B. 160 

 instead of A B. 154 for his birth, being a discrepancy of six years. 



* I assign in these remarks 24 years to the reign of Chandagutto, which will 

 bring Asoko's accession to A. B. 214, and his inauguration, four years afterwards, 

 to A. B. 218. 



