ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY. 



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The Discourse respecting Rattapala, Translated by the Rev, 

 D. J. Gogerly.— ( Read Wth September 1847.) 



It was thus heard by me. Upon a time Bagawa travelling 

 through Kuru, attended by a great number of priests came to 

 a town of Kuru named Tullakotitang, The Bramins and 

 cultivators of Tullakotitang heard : Samana Gotamo, the son 

 of Sakya, of the race of Sakya having renounced the world, 

 travelling through Kuru has arrived at Tullakotitang with a 

 great number of priests. The fame of that honorable Gotamo 

 has ascended that he is perfectly holy, the omniscient one, he 

 who has attained to the perfection of knowledge, excellent in 

 conduct, the understander of the worlds, the supreme subjector 

 of men, the teacher of gods and men, the wise, the blessed one : 

 having by his own wisdom clearly ascertained and known this 

 world with the Gods, Marayas, Brahmans, Priests, Bramins, and 

 the assemblage of other beings, he makes it known ; he preaches 

 doctrines excellent in the commencement, in the progress and 

 in the conclusion : he proclaims a course of holiness profound, 

 explicit, completely perfect, and most pure. Excellent is the 

 sight of such a holy man. 



Then the Bramins and cultivators of Tullakotitang came 

 to the place where Bagawa was, some of whom having 

 announced their name and family to Bagawa sat down on one 

 side ; some conversed with Bagawa, and having ended their 

 worthy-to-be-remembered conversation sat down, some with 

 their joined hands placed on their forehead bowing down to 

 him seated themselves, and some sat down in silence. And 

 Bagawa instructed the seated Bramins and cultivators of 

 Tullakotitang with religious discourse, causing them to em- 

 brace it, invigorating their minds to understand it, and cans- 



