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8. Pachatharana mang kute. Lanka Thfpe (Dwipe), pattanchapi. 

 His cloth or mat for sitting on, to Magadha, and his begging pot to 

 Lanka. 



9. B'hatd'ha nakarecha chiwarang, Kurunak'hare ni sit 'hanang. His 

 upper dress, or chewon, to the Kuru country. 



In the ( Ratana Kalapa' are the following notices : — The body of Bud- 

 dha was burned on Monday and Tuesday, or the Gth and 7th days of 

 the 6th month, year of the little snake. The relics were divided on 

 Thursday on the 8th of the moon's increase, in the 7th month of the year 

 little snake. The relics will be all collected again upon Wednesday to 

 Friday on the 15th of the increase, to 1st and 2d of the decrease in 

 the 6th month in the rat year, and they will be finally collected in 

 Nivana (D'hatu Nivana) from Tuesday to Wednesday, the 6th to the 

 7th of the increase, in the 6th month in the year rat. The relics will be 

 first collected and enshrined in a Cheti in Lanka, when all the Devos 

 and Nagas and Brahmans will be present, and they will return to Maha 

 Bodi Mandapa, where Buddha first became a Buddha. Here this holy 

 one will again appear refulgent, and the whole universe will be illumed 

 by his splendour. The deities of the heavens will assemble and utter 

 praises, exclaiming now the time of Buddha has expired, now we shall 

 no longer see him, now has his religion ceased. A fire will then burst 

 forth from Buddha's body and the flames will ascend to the Brahme 

 Idke. But there will be no more relics. 



Ajatasattu Raja protected the faith four months after Buddha enter- 

 ed Nivana, one hundred years after Buddha (B. C. 443) Kalasoka 

 Raja, son of Susiinaga, became the protector of the faith. 



In the year of Buddha 437 (B. C. 106) Wajjagamini (I suppose he 

 may be the Wattagamini of the Mahawanso) appointed Buddhadatta to 

 be chief of the sacerdotal order, at a place called Tissa Maha Wihar, 

 where he had collected 1000 priests. 



" It was at this period that they first began to write the history and 

 dogmas of Buddha, a labour which occupied (these priests) one year. 



A. B. 953. (A. D. 410.)— Mahanamo directed Buddha G'hdsa to put 

 the Pali Sihala Att'hakatha and Tika into the Magadha language in 

 order to preserve the same in Jumbo Dwip. (This date and the cir- 

 cumstances closely accord with the account of Buddha Ghosa in the 

 Mahawanso). 



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