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cing and vocal and instrumental music, and with odoriferous garlands, — performing 

 the prescribed offices, and rendering (every mark of) reverence, respect and submis- 

 sion, they employed themselves that day in suspending cloth-draperies, and erecting 

 tented pavilions. 



This thought then occurred to the Kusindrian Mallians :— The time is altogether 

 insufficient to burn the corpse of Bhagawa' to-day : we will perform the cremation 

 of Bhagawa' to-morrow. The Kusindrian Mallians, with dancing, and vocal and 

 instrumental music, and odoriferous flowers performed the prescribed offices to the 

 Corpse of Bhagawa', reverently, respectfully and submissively ; suspending cloth 

 draperies and erecting tented pavilions, and in this manner they passed the second 

 day also. They in like manner occupied themselves, the third, the fourth, the fifth 

 and the sixth day. 



Then on the seventh day this thought occurred to the Kusindrian Mallians : — Hav- 

 ing, unto the corpse of Bhagawa', — with dancing and vocal and instrumental music, 

 and with sweet-scented flowers, — performed the prescribed offices, with reverence, 

 respect and submission ; taking it out of the southern gate to the southward of the 

 city, — and by the suburb (keeping to) the outside to the southward of the city, we 

 will perform the cremation of the body of Bhagawa'. 



Instantly eight Mallian chieftains, bathing from head (to foot), and clothing 

 themselves in new raiment, said, we will bear the corpse of Bhagawa'. They, how- 

 ever, failed in their effort to lift it. The Kusinarian Mallians then thus inquired of 

 the venerable Anurudho : Lord Anurubho, whence, aad from what cause, is 

 it that these eight Mallian chieftains, who, purified from head (to foot), and clad in 

 new raiment, said: we will bear the corpse of Bhagawa' — have found themselves 

 unequal to the effort of raising it ?— Wdsetthians, your intentions and the intentions 

 of the dewatd are different. What, then, lord, is the intention of the dticatd ? 

 Wdsetthians, your intention is this : we will carry the corpse of Bhagawa' with 

 dancing, and vocal and instrumental music, and decorated with sweet-scented gar- 

 lands, performing every requisite office reverently, respectfully, and submissively, 

 through the southern gate to the southward of the city, and through the outskirts, 

 keeping to the suburb on the southward of the town, will perform the cremation 

 of Bhagawa'. But Wdsetthians , the intention of the dtwatd is this : we, with celes- 

 tial dance as well as heavenly vocal and instrumental music, decorated with odori- 

 ferous garlands, carrying the body of Bhagawa'— performing every prescribed office 

 thereto, reverently, respectfully and submissively — through the northern gate to the 

 northward of the city, and entering the town by the northern gate, and by the central 

 gate, conveying it into the middle of the city, and departing out of the eastern gate 

 to the eastward of the town, there, in the coronation hall, {Makuiabandhandn) of 

 the Mallians, we will perform the cremation of the body of Bhagawa'. Lord, 

 whatever be the intention of the dewatd, be it acceded to. 



Instantly, every place in Kusindrd which was a receptacle of dirt, filth and rubbish 

 became covered knee-deep, with the celestial flower manddrd — and the dewata as well 

 as the Kusindrian Mallians, carrying the corpse of Bhagawa', with celestial and 

 human dance, as well as vocal and instrumental music, and with odoriferous garlands, 

 performing every requisite office, with reverence, respect and submission ; and con- 

 veying it through the northern gate to the northward of the city, and entering 

 through the middle gate to the centre of the town*, and departing through the 



* The Atthakathd notices that while the corpse was in the city, the princess Mal- 

 laka', the widow of Bandhulo, the late Mallian commander-in-chief, invested the 

 corpse with her late husband's official insignia called mahdlatd, which jewels had 

 remained unused from the time of his death. 



