310 NOTICES ON THE LIFE AND DEATH OF SHAKYA, 



Take you seven long basins or troughs filled with fresh butter and one filled with Tsandan 

 goshirsha (a kind of sandal wood or resin) and place them in that part of the garden. When the 

 king shall come out to the door then beg him that he may be pleased to go and see the garden. 

 If he take notice of the picture and ask of you : what is this ? then tell him, at large, thus : Sire! 

 (Lhd) This place is Capilavastu; in this corner here has been born Chomd and a s. This, here, 

 is the bank of the iVaraw/awa river. This, here, is the spot where Chomd and as, sitting on a diamond- 

 seat (S. Vajrdsana, Tib. ^^'Ei'z^g^^ Dorje-dan) arrived at the supreme perfection, or became 

 Buddha. This, again is the city of Vdrandsi : Chomdandas three times passed over to this spot, and 

 turned the wheel of the law of twelve kinds. Here is the city of Shravasti, Avhere Chomdandas 

 displayed his great miracles. This, again, is the city of Sgrd-chen. It is here that Chomdandas 

 alighted, when he came down from among the gods in the Trayastrinsha heaven. This, again, is the 

 city of Kusha where Chomdandas, after having accomplished his acts in disciplining men, at such 

 and such places, went to his last sleeping bed ! Tell him so, and when, upon hearing these, he 

 shall faint, then plunge him into the long basin filled with fresh butter, and when the butter shall 

 be melted, then lay him in the second basin, and so on, till the 7th basin, then take out and lay 

 him into that filled with Tsandan-goshirsha, and so he will recover. After having said this, the 

 A'yusman Maha Kashyapa departed for the city o{ Kusha. 



Yarchet having soon got the pictures ready, when the king appeared abroad, begged him 

 that he would please to go and see the garden. The king entering into the garden, and seeing the 

 jpictures, asked of Yarchet, what is this ? He answered, and told him at large, (as above has been 

 described) till : ' this is the city of Kusha ( Tsa-chen city, so called from the Kusha grass) where 

 Chomdandas went to his last sleeping bed.' He said : < What say you I Yarchet ; whatl Chom- 

 dandas has been delivered from pain ?' said he : but Yarchet remained silent. Then the king 

 (Ajatashatru) having fainted fell motionless to the ground. Yarchet laying him succes- 

 sively in the long basins or troughs filled with fresh butter, and afterwards taking out and 

 laying him again in a long basin filled with Tsandan goshirsha, he then "recovered. 



As soon as Chomdandas was dead, at the foot of the pair of Sal-ivees, which scattered over 

 him their flowers, and he was sleeping like a lion, a Gelong thus said, in verse : 



" A pair of beautiful Sal-tvees, in this grove of excellent green trees, are scattering flowers 

 upon the Teacher delivered from pain." 



As soon as Chomdandas was dead, Indra '^v,gya-hyin) said, in verse : 



" Alas I the compound thing is not lasting; from its being produced it is of a perishable nature. 

 Since it is produced, it perishes. It is a happiness for such to be at rest (to be assuaged.)" 



As soon as Sdngs-gyds Chomdandas was delivered from pain, Brahma {Tshdngs- 

 j)d) the Lord of the Universe (S. S'ahalo-seesha, Tib. Mi-jed-kyi dakpo 

 thus said, in verse s . 



