930 Pali Buddhistical Annals. [Nor. 



his sixty-sixth, Siggawo his seventy- sixth, and Moggaliputto his eightieth 

 year. The following are the periods that all of these theros were upasampadd, of 

 whom at all times the learned Upa'li was recognized as the first chief, viz. ; 

 Da'sako was an upasampadd fifty, Sonako, forty-four, Siggawo five*, and 

 Moggaliputto, sixty-eight years. 



" Udayo reigned sixteen years, and in the sixth year of Udayo's reign, Upa'li 

 died. 



" Susana'go, the opulent monarch, reigned ten years, in the eighth year of 

 Susana'go's reign, Da'sako died. 



" Atf the demise of Susana'go he had ten hrothers, who collectively reigned 

 twenty-two years, in great celebrity. In the sixth year of their reign S6nako died. 

 " Chandagutto reigned twenty-four years, and in the fourteenth year of his 

 reign Siggawo died. 



" The celebrated Dhamma's6ko the son of Bindasa'ro reigned thirty-seven 

 years. In the twenty-sixth year of his reign, Moggaliputto died, having caused 

 religion to be glorified, and having completed the full measure of human existence. 



" The learned Upa'li, the chief of a great fraternity died at the age of seventy- 

 four, having appointed his learned disciple Da'sako to the office of chief wineyo. 



" Da'sako, died at the age of sixty.four, having appointed his senior learned 

 disciple So'nako to the office of chief of the wineyo. 



" So'nako, who was endowed with the six abinnd, died at the age of sixty-six, 



having appointed his arahat son (disciple) Siggawo to the office of chief of wineyo. 



" Siggawo who was endowed with the six abinnd, died at the age of seventy-six, 



having appointed his son (disciple) Moggaliputto to the office of chief of wineyo. 



" Moggaliputtatisso died at the age of eighty, having appointed his disciple 



Mahindo to the office of chief of ivineyo. 



The conclusion of the fifth Bhdnawdro. 

 ie PiyadassanoJ was inaugurated in the two hundred and eighteenth year after 

 the death of the supreme Buddho. At the installation of Piyadassano preterna- 

 tural manifestations took place." 



(For these manifestations I must refer to the Mahawanso.) 

 «« That royal youth, who was the grandson of Chandagutto and the son of 

 BindusA'ro was at that time the (haramolino) ruler of Vjjeni. 



" In the course of an official circuit he visited Wessanagurdn ; where lived a damsel, 

 the daughter of a Sitthi, who became celebrated under the name of Dewi. By his 

 connection with her, an illustrious son was born. (The said son) Mahindo and 

 (his daughter) Sangamitta' formed the resolution to enter the order of priesthood. 

 Both these individuals having been thus ordained, overcame subjection to regene- 

 ration. As6ko was then reigning in the illustrious Pataiiputto. In the third year 

 of his inauguration he became a convert to the religion of the supreme Buddho. 

 (If it be asked) what the duration of the term is, from the date of the parinibbdnan 

 of the supreme Buddho to the date of the birth of Mahindo, who was descended 

 from the Moriyan dynasty, (the answer is) two hundred and five years. In that 

 year Mahindo the son of Asoko was born. In Mahindo's tenth year, his 

 father put his own brothers to death ; and he past four years in reducing Jambudipo 

 to order. Having put to death his hundred brothers, and reduced the dynasty to one 



* This is evidently a mistake. 



f The reign of Ka'la'soko is omitted, who was the father of the Nandos who are 

 here designated the brothers of Susana'go. 



J Having erroneously written this name " Piyadasino" in a former paper, 

 Vol. VI. p. 1056, you have been led to suppose it wa6 the genitive case of Fiyaddsi. 



