1014 On the spontaneaus heating' of Brine. [Dec. 



Bhagawa', and celebrated a festival. The brahman Dond built a th&po for the 

 kumbhdn; and the Pipphalawarian Morians built a thUpo at Pipphalawano- over the 

 charcoal, and celebrated a festival. Thus there were eight thupo over the corporeal 

 relics ; a ninth over the kumbh&n, and a tenth over the charcoal. This is the origin 

 of this matter, (the erection of thupos.) 



The relics of the Eye (Buddho) consist of eight dondni ; seven ddndni are objects 

 of worship in Jambudipo, and one ddndn of the relics of the supreme personage, the 

 Naga rajas worship in Ramagdmo. One tooth is the object of worship among the 

 dewos: one is worshipped in the capital of Gandhdrd : another in the kingdom of the 

 Kdlingd* monarchs ; the other the Ndga monarchs worship. It is by his providential 

 interposition that this all-bountiful earth is regulated by the rulers on earth. 



Thus unto the relics of Chakkhu (the eye), by those by whom protection ought 

 to be afforded, protection has been fully rendered : and as they (the relics) have 

 received offerings as well from the dewos, ndgas and kings, as from the great among 

 mankind— bow down therefore unto them with clasped hands ; — for the Buddha 

 do not appear even within the term of a hundred happd (of each other). 



The termination of the Mahdparinibbdna-Suttan. 



The Atthakathd explains, that before the close of Aja'tasattu's 

 reign, who survived Buddho twenty years, by the advice and instru- 

 mentality of Mahakassapo, all these relics, excepting the portion 

 enshrined at Ramagdmo, were brought to Rdjagahan for their better 

 protection ; where they were all enshrined in a great thilpo on the 

 southeast quarter of that city. In the reign of Piyada'os, surnamed 

 Dhammasoka, these relics were again dispersed all over Jambudipo. 

 The relics left at Rdmagdmo were predestined for Tambopanni, and 

 they were accordingly transfered to Ceylon in the reign of De'wanan- 

 piyatisso. — Vide the Mahdwanso. 



II. — On the spontaneous heating of Brine. By G. A. Prinsep, Esq. 



My experiments on the spontaneous heating of brine, which formed 

 an article in the Journal of March last (page 207), have been fol- 

 lowed up with a copious series of observations, of which the results 

 will be found in the statements annexed. The present series com- 

 mences for the most part from the time when (or soon after) the brine 

 was first let into the reservoirs at my salt-works, and embraces, with 

 two or three exceptions, the entire progress of the heating until its partial 

 or complete subsidence. It is therefore remarkable, as the places of 

 trial were also more numerous and the circumstances more various than 

 before, that the maximum temperature observed is 21° Ft. less than in 

 the experiments already brought to notice, and 26° less in the same 

 place, being in the brine at Narainpore 142° at the pump, and 137° by 

 the probe in November 1837, and only 116° at the pump and 111° by 

 * This is the tooth subsequently transferred to Ceylon. 



