726 Examination of the Pdli Buddhistical Annals. [Sept. 



it habitable for human beings. In the fourteenth year of the reign of Uda'ya. 

 bhado, in Jambudipo, Wijayo died here. In the fifteenth year of the reign of 

 Uda'yabhado, Panduwa'sadewo came to the throne in this island. In the 

 twentieth year of the reign of NVgada'so there, Panduwa'sadewo died here # 

 In the same year, Abhayo succeeded to the kingdom. In the seventeenth year 

 of the reign of Susuna'go there, twenty years of the reign of Abhayo had been 

 completed; and then, in the said twentieth year of Abhayo, the traitor Pan- 

 duka'bhayo usurped the kingdom. In the sixteenth year of the reign of 

 Ka'la'soko there, the seventeenth year of Panduka'bhayo's reign had elapsed 

 here. The foregoing (years) together with this one year, will make the eighteenth 

 (of his reign). In the fourteenth year of the reign of Chandagutto, Panduka'- 

 bhayo died here ; and Mutasiwo succeeded to the kiDgdom. In the seven- 

 teenth year of the reign of Dhammasoko raja, Mutasiwo raja died, and 

 Dewa'nanpiyatisso raja succeeded to the kingdom. 



" From the Parinibhdnan of the Supreme Buddho, Aja'tasatto reigned twenty- 

 four years. Uda'yabhado, sixteen ; Anuruddho and Mundho, eighteen. Na'- 

 gada'sako, twenty-four Susuna'go, eighteen years. His son Ka'la'soko, 

 twenty-eight years. The ten sons of Ka'la'soko reigned twenty -two years. Sub- 

 sequently to them, Nawanando reigned twenty-two years. *Chandagutto, 

 twenty-four years. Bindusa'ro, twenty-eight years. At his demise Asoko 

 succeeded, and in the eighteenth year after his inauguration, Mahindo the>o 

 arrived in this island. This royal narration is to be thus understood." 



The fictitious synochronisms attempted to be established in this 

 extract, between the chronology of India and of Ceylon, are, it will be 

 observed, most successfully made out. The discrepancies as to the 

 year of Aja'tasatto's reign, in which Sa'kya died ; as to the compari- 

 son between Ka'la'soko and Panduka'bhayo, and as to the duration 

 of the joint rule of Anuruddho and Mundho, as well as that of 

 Chandagutto, all manifestly proceed from clerical errors of the 

 transcribers ; as will be seen by the following juxta-positions. 



A. B. A. B. 

 Buddho died and Wijayo landed 



18th of Ajatasatto, 1 in Ceylon, 1 



14th of Uday abhaddako, 38 Last of Wijayo, 38 



15th of Ditto, 39 First of Pandewaso, 39 



20th of N&gadaso, 68 Last of ditto, 69 



17th of Susundgo, 89 20th of Abhayo, 89 



16th of Kalasoko, 106 17th of Pandakabhayo 124 



14th of Chandagutto 176 Last of Ditto, 176 



17th of Dhammasoko, 235 Last of Mutasiwo, 236 



With these preparatory remarks, the design of which has been 

 already explained, I shall proceed to translate the following passages 

 descriptive of the second and third convocations, taken from the in- 

 troduction in Buddha'ghoso's Atthakathd on the Winayo and Abhid- 

 hammapitako. 



* In a preceding note, I have stated that I consider this date, though an 

 apparent erratum, to be correct. 



