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having converted three times four thousand of the said snakes to his 

 religion, who offered to him an infinity of offerings and thanksgivings ; 

 which the god called Saman-dewa Raja, looking westwards from Adam's 

 Peak beheld, and rejoicing said, 'Now Buddha is come to Ceylon, what 

 I greatly longed for shall come to pass.' And instantly he, with all his 

 train of inferior gods, presented themselves before Buddha, and humbly 

 worshipped, saying, ' O Buddha ! beholdest thou this lofty rock, the name 

 of which is Samanta Coota (Adam's Peak) which appears like a rock 

 of blue sapphire, and which being five leagues high, is constantly touched 

 by the passing clouds ? On the top of that said mountain, several 

 Buddhas have left relics, by which they are still kept in memory, the 

 same being as it were the crown of my head : do thou, O mighty one ! 

 vouchsafe to add one gem thereto, by leaving the impression of thy foot 

 thereon, which shall be a precious blessing to this isle.' Buddha, then 

 turning his eye towards the east beheld the spiral top of the elevated 

 mountain, — as the woman of the Island of Ceylon, with head lif'ted*up, and 

 with anxious expectation looking out for the coming of her lord, on 

 account of having been twice disappointed of her expected dowry, namely, 

 the print of the foot of Buddha, who had twice come to Ceylon without 

 having visited the said sacred place, she had become disconsolate, and 

 through the depth of her affliction, had sent from her eyes two rivers of 

 tears, namely Calany- Ganga, or the river Calany, and Mahawelle Ganga, 

 or the river of Mahawelle ; and had also divested herself of all her 

 ornaments and jewels, and had strewed them round in the agony of 

 despair (from whence it came, that in her vicinity there were to be found 

 innumerable mines of gold and precious stones), Buddha said to her. — 

 'This day will I comfort thee, O thou woman of Ceylon! as other 

 Buddhas have done;' and so with 500 attendant ministers ascending 

 through the clouds, shining like pillars of gold, and hovering over the top 

 of the said rock, the rock on which the print of Buddha's foot had 

 formerly been made, started from its foundation, and meeting this our 

 Buddha in the air, received the impression of his left foot, and fell down 

 upon the place where it now lies. Upon which she who had long 

 remained sorrowful and disconsolate, now became cheerful. By a shower 

 of rain which began to fall at a time when rain could not have, been 



