1838.] Pali Buddhistical Annals. 929 



" Da'sako having: learned the whole of the Pitako in the fraternity of Upa'li, 

 and held the office of Upajjh&yo (conferer of the sacerdotal ordination of upasam- 

 padd) propounded the same. The chief of the great fraternity (Upa'li) having 

 deposited (tapehoana) the whole wineyo in the charge of the learned Da'sako, died. 

 The monarch Udayo reigned sixteen years. It was in the sixth year of his reign 

 that the thero Upa'li demised. 



" A certain trader named So'nako who had come from the Kdsi country, and was 

 proud of his high descent, entered the sacerdotal order in the religion of the divine 

 teacher (Buddho) at the Weluwano* wiharo in the mountain-girt city (Rajagahan). 

 Da'sako, the chief of the confraternity, sojourned in the mountain-girt city, the 

 capital of the Mugadha nation, thirty-seven years, and initiated S6nako into the 

 sacerdotal order. The learned Da'sako was forty-five years old, in the tenth year 

 of the reign of the raja Na'gada'so, and twentieth of the reign of the raja Pandu 

 (of Lanka). 



"The thero So'nako became a.n upasampadd in the fraternity of the thero Da'sako 

 and the thero Da'sako taught So'nako the nine component parts of the faith ; and 

 having learned the same from the preceptor who ordained him, he also taught the 

 same. The thero Da'sako having invested Sonako thero, who wus the senior 

 pupil in his fraternity, with the office of chief over the zoineyo, died in the sixty- 

 fourth year of his age. 



" At the expiration of ten years and half a month of the reign of the raja Ka'la'- 

 soko, the thero named Sonako was forty years old, and he had then been a thero 

 learned in the doctrines for fourteen years ; and at the period of the expiration of 

 ten years and six months, the thero Sonako, who was the chief of a great fraternity, 

 conferred the upasampadd ordination on Siggawo and Chandawo. 



" At that period a century had expired from the time that Bhagawa' had attained 

 nibbandn, and certain (bikkhus) of Wesdli native of Wajji set forth these ten (new) 

 tenets of descipline." 



Here follows an account of the schism, and of the second convoca- 

 tion held in consequence, in the tenth year of the reign of Kalasoko, 

 with which the fourth Bhdnawdro concludes, the particulars of which 

 are given in the paper, No. 2, and in the Mahdwanso. The fifth com- 

 mences with recapitulating the principal particulars of the first and 

 second convocations and the schisms, and then proceeds : 



" In the second year of the reign of Chundagutto, when Siggawo was sixty-four 

 years old, which was the fifty-eighth year of the reign of Panduka'bhayo, the 

 r&ja (of Lanka) Moggaliputto was ordained an upasampadd in the fraternity of 

 Siggawo ; and the said Moggaliputtatisso, having acquired the knowledge of 

 the wineyo in the fraternity of Chandawajji, was released from the sins insepa- 

 rable from liability to future regeneration. Both Siggawo and Chandawajji 

 taught the whole of the Pitako, which embraces both (the wineyo, discipline, and 

 dhammo, doctrine), to the pre-eminently endowed Moggaliputto. Siggawo of 

 profound wisdom died at the age of seventy-six, having constituted the pre-eminently 

 endowed Moggaliputto the chief of the wineyo. Chandagutto reigned twenty- 

 four years. In the fourteenth year of his reign Siggawo died. 



" In the sixth year of the reign of Dhamma'soko, Moggaliputto was sixty-six 

 years old. Mahindo was then ordained an upasampadd in his fraternity, and 

 acquired a knowledge of the Pitako. 

 *' Upa'li attained his seventy-fourth, Da'sako his sixty-fourth, the thero So'nako 

 * This word signifies the bamboo grove. 

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