?18 Examination of the PdliBuddhistical Annals. [§ep£. 



on which ' nibb&na' is achieved, ia the midst of a great assembly of DeVatas 

 the great divine sage addressed this celebrated injunction of *Sa/kko, who stood 

 near him: one Wijayo, the son of Sihaba'hu, king of the^land of Ldla, together 

 with seven hundred officers of state, has landed on Lankd. Lord of DeVos 1 My 

 religion will be established in Lankd, on that account thoroughly protect, 

 together with his retinue, him and Lankd ■! 



" This prince named Wijayo, who had then attained the wisdom of experience 

 landed in the division Tambapanni of this land of Lankd, on the day that the 

 succession (of former Buddhos) reclined in the arbour of the two delightful sal 

 trees, to attain ' nibbdnan.'' " 



This revelation or injunction, the object and effect of which are to 

 fix the same day for the date of the death of Sakya and the landing of 

 Wijayo, is not only not to be found in the Parinibbdna-suttan, where, if 

 any where, it ought to be recorded, but is omitted even in Buddha- 

 ghoso's Pali Atthakathd on that portion of the Buddhistical scrip* 

 tures ; nor have the priesthood been yet able to refer me to any other 

 section of the Pali sacred commentaries where it is to be met with. 

 We shall probably find that this is one of the numerous passages of 

 the historical portion of the ancient Singhalese Atthakathd which 

 Buddhaghoso excluded from his Pali version. I shall have to 

 advert to these omissions of historical data, in a future notice of the 

 genealogy of Indian kings. 



The second prophecy is thus introduced in the 1 7th chapter of the 

 Mahdwanso, propounded by the thero Mahindo, in the account of the 

 arrival and enshrinement in Ceylon, in the reign of the Ceylonese 

 monarch Dewananpiyatisso, of certain corporal relics of Sakya 

 obtained from India. 



" While seated on the throne on which he attained ' parinibbdnan,' these five 

 resolves were formed by the vanquisher endowed with five means of perception. 



" Let the right branch of the great bo tree, when Asoko is in the act of 

 removing it, severing itself from the main tree, become planted in the vase 

 (prepared for it). 



" Let the said branch so planted, delighting by its fruit and foliage, glitter 

 with its six variegated colors in every direction. 



" Let that enchanting branch, together with its golden vase, rising up in the 

 air, remain invisible for seven days in the womb of the snowy region of the 

 skies. 



" Let a two-fold miracle be performed at TMparamaya (at which) my right 

 collar-bone is to be enshrined. 



"In the Hemawdlako ddgobaf (Ruwanwelli) the jewel which decorates Lankd, 

 there will be a ' drona? full of my relics. Let them, assuming my form as Buddho 

 and rising up and remaining poised in the air, perform a two-fold miracle. 



* Incha, 

 t These dagobas are now in ruins, at Anurddhapura. The account of their 

 construction will be found in the Mahdwanso. 



