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should a supreme of men (Buddho) be born in my dominions : should a Tatha'gato 

 select me for the first person to whom he presented himself : should he administer 

 to me the heavenly dhammo ; and should I comprehend that supreme dhammo — 

 these will be blessings vouchsafed to me.' Such were the five wishes conceived 

 by Bimbisa'ro. 



" Accordingly, on the demise of his father, he was inaugurated in the fifteenth 

 year of his age : within his dominions the supreme of the world was born : 

 Tatha'gato repaired to him as the first person to whom he presented himself : pro- 

 pounded the heavenly dhammo : and the monarch comprehended it. 



" Maha'we'ro was not less than thirty-five years old, and the monarch Bimbi- 

 SA'ro, was in the thirtieth year of his age. Go'tamo therefore was five years 

 senior to Bimbisa'ro. That monarch reigned fifty-two years, thirty-seven of 

 which he passed contemporaneously with Buddho. 



" Aja'tasattu (his son) reigned thirty-two years : in the eighth year of his 

 inauguration, the supreme Buddho attained nibbdnan. From the time that the omni- 

 scient Buddho, the most revered of the woi-ld and the supreme of men attained 

 Buddhohood, this monarch reigned twenty -four years." 



The conclusion of the third Bhdnaw&ro. 



Note. — A Bhdnaivdro ought to contain 250 gatha. This section is 

 only equal to 87, and some of the verses are incomplete. I can how- 

 ever detect no want of continuity in the narrative. 



The fourth Bhdnawdro commences with an account of the first con- 

 vocation, which is already described in No. 1, of this analysis. This 

 chapter then proceeds with a chronological narrative of the history of 

 India, specifying also the contemporaneous dates of the reigns of the 

 monarchs of Ceylon, and of the death of those inspired Therci, who are 

 considered to have constituted the connecting links of the chain called 

 the Therdparampara or generation of preceptors. 



The following are the most important passages of this section : 



11 The sixteenth year after the nibbanan of the saviour of the world was the 

 twenty-fourth of Aja'tasattu, and the sixteenth of Wijayo (the raja of Lankd). 

 The learned Upa'li was then sixty years old. Da'sako entered into the upasam- 

 padd order in the fraternity of Upa'li. Whatever may be the extent of the doctrines 

 of the most revered Buddho which had been promulgated by that vanquisher as the 

 nine integral portions of his dispensation, the whole thereof Upa'li taught. The 

 said Upa'li thus taught the same, having learnt, in the most perfect manner, the 

 whole of the nine portions of his doctrine, which have been auricularly perpetuated, 

 from Buddho himself. Buddho has declared of Upa'li in the midst of the congre- 

 gated priesthood, ' Upa'u being the first in the knowledge of wineyo, is the chief 

 in my religion.' He who had thus been selected and approved in the midst of the 

 assembled priesthood, and who had a numerous fraternity, taught the three Pitako 

 to a fraternity of a thousand bikkhus, of whom Da'sako was the chief desciple : he 

 taught them (especially) to Da'sako and to five hundred Therd, who had overcome 

 the domiuion of sin, were of immaculate purity and morals, and versed in the wdda 

 (history of the schisms). The thero Upa'li who had a great fraternity continued 

 to teach the ivineyo for full thirty years after the nibbanan of the supreme Buddho. 

 The said Upa'li taught the whole of the eighty-four thousand component parts 

 of the doctrines of the divine teacher to the learned Da'sako. 



