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ANALYSIS OF THE DULVA, 



different times, the prince of all the physicians, by the king of Magadha. 

 Leaf ] 07-108. Medical science : — his meeting with Shaky a — his improve- 

 ment in curing the diseases both of the body and of the mind. 



Leaf 111 to 114. The disciples of Shakya are permitted to wear three 

 pieces of religious clothing of a dark red colour, for distinction's sake — what 

 gave occasion to that permission — instruction how to prepare those garments. 



From Zm/ 114. The story of Sa-ga-ma, a young girl from Champa, 

 married afterwards to the son of a chief officer at Shravasti in Kosala. 

 Her modest and prudent conduct : — description of modest and of impudent 

 women ; she is represented as the model of modest, prudent, wise, frugal, and 

 in many respects accomplished women. Her mother's enigmatical instruc- 

 tion to her with respect to her future conduct, when about to be married. 

 Leaf 124-125. Explication of those enigmatical terms. Her father-in- 

 law expresses himself thus : " Your mother has been wise in having given 

 you such enigmatical instructions, but you are more wise than she in hav- 

 ing understood and practised her enigmatical advice." 



Leaf 126. Sa-ga-ma is proclaimed the mother of Ri-DAGS-jfyosiN and 

 the sister of (tsal-bgyal, the king of Kosala. A Vihar is founded in her 

 name ; — she is delivered of thirty-two eggs, from which thirty-two young 

 boys come forth : — their adventures — they are destroyed by the king of 

 Kosala, and their heads sent in a basket to Sa-ga-ma their mother. 



Leaf 129 to 131 . Shakya's lessons to the king of Kosala on that subject, 

 Sa-ga-ma's former moral and religious merits, as also the demerits of her 

 thirty-two sons, told and applied by ShXkya. 



i^z/lSS. The story of Ri-dags-mgo, an astrologer. His ill-grounded 

 prognostication — he becomes a disciple of Shakya — is convinced of the 

 absurdity of his astrological predictions. 



Leaf 135. Sa-ga-ma at >S'/^r«^;a5^^ invites and entertains ShXkya with 

 his suite. Among other offerings she presents some pieces of cotton cloth, 

 for the monks and nvms (or male and female religious persons) to make 

 bathing clothes of them, since she had been informed that they bathed naked. 



