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CEYLON BRANCH— ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY. 



was proper that this cause of sorrow should be abandoned by 

 me, &c. — It is fully abandoned by me. This eminent truth 

 respecting the cessation of sorrow should be experienced by 

 me. — This cessation from sorrow is fully experienced by me. 

 It is proper that I should be accustomed to this path leading 

 to the cessation from sorrow. I am fully accustomed to this 

 path.] 



At the time, O Priests, when these four eminent truths, 

 each in a three-fold relation, were thus in twelve modes un 

 derstood by me, was not my perception of wisdom most 

 clear ? Did I not know at that time that I had fully attained 

 to the state of an Omniscient Budha, supreme over the 

 heavenly worlds, with the Marayas, and Brahmans ; over the 

 multitudes of Sam an as, Brahmins, gods and men ? When 

 O Priests, I thus had, in twelve modes, a clear and distinct 

 understanding of those four eminent truths, each in a three- 

 fold relation, by that I knew that I had fully attained to the 

 state of an Omniscient Budha, supreme over the heavenly 

 worlds, with its Marayas and Brahmans, over the multitudes 

 of Samanas, Brahmins, gods and men. Knowledge and per- 

 ception were then developed in me ; my mind is placid and 

 free ; this is my last birth ; there is now no further state of 

 existence for me. 



When he had thus spoken in explanation, the venerable 

 Kondanya obtained a perception of doctrine pure and un- 

 ci efi led, and whatever causes for the production of sorrow 

 were in him, they altogether ceased to exist. 



When the doctrinal code was thus established by Bagawa, 

 the gods of the earth caused their voices to be heard saying, 

 Thus Bagawa has established his code of doctrine in Baranisa 

 the delight of sages, the safe retreat of animals, so that it 

 cannot be overturned by any Sam an a, by any Bramin, by 

 any Maraya, by any Brahma, or by any other being in the 

 world. Thus in an instant, in a moment, the sound ascended 



