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there. [The same is repeated for each of the other three quar« 

 ters, and the parts beyond sea.] It is on this account great Kings, 

 that Bagawa has said. The world is ever wanting more, id 

 dissatisfied, the slave of desire: and knowing, seeing and hear-* 

 rng this I have forsaken home and become houseless : Won- 

 derful, Rattapala, surprizing- ! Well has it been said by Ba- 

 gawa the world is ever wanting more, is dissatisfied, the slave 

 of desire. 



This said the venerable Rattapala, and having spoke thus 

 ke afterwards said, I see rich men in the world, having ob- 

 tained wealth, covetous and foolish, giving nothing, hoard up 

 their riches; and in their lust wishing for much more. 



Conquering Kings, having subdued the earth, and occupying 

 all unto the borders of the sea, still unsatisfied, desire the parts 

 beyond the ocean. 



Kings and people with unquenched desires approach death, 

 and leave the body, still wanting more : the world cannot fill 

 Up their lust or possession. 



Their relatives weeping with dishevelled hair, or saying, ah ! 

 certainly he is dead, wrap him in a cloth; take him to the 

 funeral pile and burn him. 



He thus, forsaking his wealth) is clothed with a single cloth, pierced 

 with stakes and burnt. The dying find no deliverance (from 

 death) by friends or relations. 



The heirs take away his wealth, and the being goes (to 

 another state) accordirg to his actions. The dead are not 

 accompanied by wealth, by child, or wife, or property, or land* 



By riches no one obtains long life, neither by wealth is de- 

 cay prevented. This life is short, evanescent, changeable. The 

 wise men say, 



The rich and the poor are touched with that stroke; as the 

 fool so the wise ; thus struck i the fool in his folly tremble^ 

 fout the wise is unmoved, 



