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time for the priesthood (to hold their convocation). I am about to interrogate 

 A'nando on Dhammo." 



The revered A'nando then addressed the priesthood. te Lords ! let the 

 priesthood attend to me. This is the appointed time for the priesthood, 

 interrogated by the venerable Maha'kassapo, I am about to expound the 

 Dhammo." 



The venerable A'nando then rising from his seat, and adjusting his robes so 

 as to leave one shoulder bare, and bowing down to the senior bhikkhus, took 

 his place in the Dhammdsanan, holding up the ivory-wrought fan. 



The venerable Maha'kassapo next asked, " Beloved ! which Pitako shall 

 we rehearse first ?" 



" Lord 1 the Suttantd Pitako /" 



" In the Suttanta Pitdko there are four Sangitiyo ; which among them the 

 first?" 



" Lord ! the DighasangitV 



" In the Dighasanyiii, there are thirty-four Suttdni, composing the three 

 Waggd, among them which Waggo first ?' 



" Lord ! the Silakkhanda-waggo.^ 



" In the Sllakkhanda-waggo, there are thirteen Suttantd, which Suttan first?" 



" Lord ! the Brahmajdla-suttan." 



" Let us then rehearse first that Suttan which is embellished with the three 

 Sildni, which triumphed over the various heretical faiths, sustained by hypo- 

 crisy and fraud ; which unraveled the doctrinal tissue of the sixty-two heterodox 

 sects, and shook the earth together with its ten thousands component parts." 



Thereupon the venerable Maha'kassapo thus addressed the venerable 

 A'nando. 



" Beloved I A'nando ! where did (Buddho) deliver the Brahmajdlan ?" 



" Lord 1 between Rdjagata and Ndlanda, in the palace situated in the Arriba* 

 litthikd (mango grove.)" 



" "Who gave rise to it ?" 



" Suppiyo, the paribbdjako, and the youth Brahmadatto." 



" What was the subject ?" 



" The praise of virtue." 



The venerable Maha'kassapo then inquired of the venerable A'nando the 

 origin of the Brahmajdlan — the individual concerned, and the subject. 



The venerable A'nando explained them. At the termination of his exposition, 

 the five hundred arahanta chaunted it forth, and as described in the former in- 

 stance, the earth quaked. 



Having thus rehearsed the Brahmajdlan, then in succession, together with the 

 Brahmajdlan, all the thirteen Suttdni having been rehearsed in the prescribed 

 form of interrogation and explanation, viz : " Beloved A'nando 1 where did 

 (Buddho) deliver the Samtinnaphalan suttdn," and authenticated the same, they 

 called that portion the " Silakkhandawaggo" 



Having then rehearsed Mahdwaggo, and lastly the Pdtiwaggo and thus com- 

 pleting the rehearsal of the three Waggd comprising the thirty-four Suttdni, 

 amounting to sixty-four Bhdnawdrd of the text ; and calling the same (collec- 

 tively) the Dighanikdyo, they consigned the same to the charge of the venerable 

 A'nando, saying, " Propound this to thy pupils." 



