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The following are the first words of Buddho* : 



Anekaj dtisansdran sandhdwessan anibbisan 



Gahakdrakan, gawisanto dukkhdjdtis punappunan ; 

 Gahakdraka ! diithosi : punna gthan na kdhasi ; 



Sabbdte phdsukd bhaggd; gahakutan wisankhitan ; 

 Wisankhara-gatan chittan, tanhdnan khayamajjdgd ! 



11 Performing my pilgrimage through the (sansdru) eternity of countless ex- 

 istences, in sorrow, have I unremittingly sought in vain the artificer of the abode 

 (of the passions) (i. e. the human frame). Now O artificer ! art thou found. 

 Henceforth no receptacle of sin shalt thou form — thy frames (literally ribs) 

 broken ; thy ridge-pole shattered ; the soul (or mind) emancipated from liabi- 

 lity to regeneration (by transmigration) has annihilated the dominion of the 

 passions." 



These are the " first words of Buddho." 



There are some persons who maintain, that the gdthd, commencing with the 

 words, Yadd have pdtu-bhawanti dhammd " most assuredly in due course the 

 dhammd will descend (be revealed)" which are in the KJiandho 'section) were 

 also a part of the hymn of joy composing the first words of Buddho. 



This gdthd of joy of him who had attained the state of omniscience, by his 

 own felicitous intelligence, and who had watched the progress of the Pachayd- 

 karan be it understood, was delivered on the day after the full moon. 



What he (Buddho) said at the moment he was passing into parinibbdnan 

 (reclining between the two sal-trees at Kusindra, on the full moon day of the 

 month Wesdko, — Handaddne, bhikkhawe" ! dmantaydml wo ; wiyadhammd san- 

 khdrd appamdde'na sampddetha. " Now, O bhikkhus ! I am about to conjure you 

 (for the last time) : perishable things are transitory : without procrastination earn 

 (hibbdnari)." These were his " last words.'' Whatever has been said by him 

 between those two are his " middle words." Thus by the classification into " the 

 first," " the middle," and the " last words," it consists of " three classes." 



How does it by the Pitaka division, become the " three Pitaka." 



The whole being divided into the Winayo-Suttantd and Abhidhammo, becomes 

 three sections. Including therein both what was andf what was not authenti- 

 cated in the first convocation, — viz. the two Pdtimokkhdni — the two Wibhan- 

 gdni, the twenty-two Khandakhd, and the sixteen Pariwdrd. This (portion) was 

 called the " Winaya-Pitako." 



The collection of thirty-four Suttantd commencing with the Brahmajdlan is 

 the " Dighanikdyo." 



The collection of one hundred and fifty-two Suttantd, commencing with the 

 M&lapariydya is the " Majjhimanikdyo." 



The collection of seven thousand seven hundred and sixty Suttantd, com- 

 mencing with the Oghakarana suttan, is the " Sanguttanikdyo." 



The collection of nine thousand five hundred and fifty-seven suttantd, com- 

 mencing with the Chittapariydddnan is the " Anguttaronikdyo." 



* Uttered at the instant of his attaining buddhohood under the bo-tree at Uru- 

 we'la, now Buddhagayd. 



f Adverting to the few explanatory words which were added, as before described^ 

 for the connection of the sense of the text. 



