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FURTHER NOTE REGARDING THE 



throughout the day and night, remain on guard near Boodh's tree, are 

 LwoT-TSAN, Kharat, Yantee, Hatra and Gomyen, which five men are 

 appointed to this duty by the principal Jogee. 



The circumference of Boodh's tree on a line with the top of the encircling 

 brick platform of five gradations, which forms its throne and is thirty-five 

 cubits high, measured nineteen cubits and ten fingers breadth. The tree rises 

 forty-four cubits above the brick platform. From the top of the tree to the 

 terrace on the ground on the eastern side, may be eighty cubits, or a little 

 more only, apparently, the boughs and small branches, which once grew 

 upwards, have in consequence of the great age of the tree spread out 

 laterally, and this is the reason why the present height of the tree does not 

 correspond with that mentioned in the scriptures. It was fresh and young 

 when Gaud AM A was perfected into a Boodh, and some of the boughs and 

 small branches must then have been growing straight upwards, as well as 

 some laterally — hence, we must believe that it was truly said in the scrip- 

 tures to be a hundred cubits high— After going round and round Boodh's 

 excellent tree, and offering our devotions to it during three days, we gave 

 the guardian of the tree the Muhunt Jogee 80 rupees, and a present of 20 

 rupees to his disciples, and the subordinate Jogees, and returned (to Pafna.y 



Note.— According to the Buddhist scriptures Gaudama, after he had become perfected 

 into a Boodh under tbe Peepul tree, rested seven days at seven different places in the neigh- 

 bourhood of that tree. These seven times seven days are called Thatta Thattaha, and the 

 seven places Thatta T,hana — which are described as follows : 



1st. Baudhi pallen gan, pat,hama t,huna — Place of the golden throne which had mira- 

 culously risen from the ground under the shade of the Peepul tree, and upon which Gau- 

 dama sat immovable seven days. 



2d. Aneimmeittha koun, dootiya *,/t«na— This was a spot on a rising ground at a short 

 distance from the tree, at which Gaudama stood immovable, looking at the golden throne 

 " without winking or blinking," during seven whole days. 



3d. Yatana zen gyan, tatiya t,hdna — This was another spot near the tree where Gau- 

 DAMa walked backwards and forwards in the air during seven days. 



