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to assist him. The one attends on him, the other seeks after medicaments. 

 The cause of his smiling once. He tells them the birth ofSnAKYA, and 

 that he has become a saint or JBiiddJia. He advises them to become his 

 disciples, but not to mention their caste and family name, but leaving off 

 every pride, to practise good morals before him, if they wish to find the 

 food of immortality (Tib. Bdud-rtsi, Sans. Amrita.) Leaf 41. A 

 stanza on the instability of human things : " All gathered treasures will 

 end in want ; the end of those on high is downfall ; the end of meeting is 

 separation or parting; the end of being alive is being dead (or is death)." — 

 He dies — they burn his body decently, and mourn for him. They are 

 convinced that their deceased master has been a sage, and that he had 

 found the food of immortality. They regret much that he has not com- 

 municated it to them. They both make a law among themselves, that 

 whichever should find first the amrita should communicate it to the other. 

 The circumstances of their afterwards becoming disciples of Shakya. 

 He declares them the first pair of his principal disciples,^ — Nye'-jjgyal 

 (ShArihi-bu, or Sharadwati) "the chief of the ingenious or intelligent," 

 and Pang-5KYes (Mongal-gyi-bu, or Mohugal-gyi-bu, Sans. 3Ionga' 

 iyana ) " the chief of those that make miracles or prodigies or illusory 

 spectacles." 



Leaf 42. Shakya declares that his privation and austerities, during 

 the course of six years, were to no effect ; he could not find what 

 he sought for. He refreshes himself with substantial food, recovers his 

 vigour, gives himself to meditation, and arrives at perfection, or becomes 

 a Suddha. On the request of Brahma, the god, he goes to Vardnasi, per- 

 forms there his first religious course, teaches his doctrine first to five 

 men, who had been formerly his attendants. Afterwards he disciplines 

 there fifty young persons of high descent; — ordains and consecrates them, 

 (leaf 43,^ At other different places he finds many other disciples ; — goes to 

 Rdjagriha. Thekingof il'/«^a<f/ia(ViMBAsXRA) offers him a residing place 

 in a grove (called Q^'^'*(Q'4<2J'i'^'q3i'i;^'^Q'q^?V, Jiod-mahi-tshahhya.ka-lan~ 



