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The following quotation is taken from the Ilou'ble George 

 Tumour's translation of the Mahawanso, ch. i. pp. 6, 7. 



"In (this) eighth year of his [Gautama's] buddahood, [he] the van- 

 quisher and saviour, was sojourning in the garden of Jeto, with 500 of 

 his disciples. On the second day, being the full moon of the delightful 

 month of Wesakho, on its being announced to him that it was the hour 

 of refection, the vanquisher, lord of munis, at that instant adjusting his 

 robes, and taking up his sacred dish, departed for the kingdom of Kalyani, 

 to the residence of Maniakkhiko. On the spot where the Kalyani dagoba 

 (was subsequently built) on a throne of inestimable value, erected in a 

 golden palace, he stationed himself, together with his attendant disciples. 

 The overjoyed Naga king and his retinue provided the vanquisher, the 

 doctrinal lord and his disciples, with celestial food and beverage. The 

 comforter of the world, the divine teacher, the supreme lord, having then 

 propounded the doctrine of his faith, rising aloft (into the air) displayed 

 the impression of his foot on the mountain Samantakuta (by imprinting it 

 there). On the side of that mountain, he, with his disciples, having 

 enjoyed the rest of noon day, departed for Dighawapi ; and on the site 

 of the dagoba (subsequently erected), the saviour, attended by his 

 disciples, seated himself ; and for the purpose of rendering that spot 

 celebrated, he there enjoyed the bliss of " Samadhi." Kising aloft from 

 that spot, the great divine sage, cognizant of the places (sanctified by 

 former Buddhas) departed for the station where the Meghawana estab- 

 lishment was subsequently formed (at Anuradhapura). The saviour, 

 together with his disciples, alighting on the spot where the sacred bo-tree 

 was (subsequently) planted enjoyed the bliss of the "Samadhi" medi- 

 tation : thence, in like manner, on the spot where the great dag ba (was 

 subsequently built); similarly, at the site of the dagoba Thuparamo, 

 indulging in the same meditation: from thence he repaired to the site of 

 the Sila dagoba. The lord of multitudinous disciples preached to the 

 congregated Dewos, and thereafter the Buddha omniscient of the present, 

 the past, and the future, departed for the garden of Jeto." 



In the Atthakatha on the Vinaya-pitaka entitled "Samanta 

 Pasadika," Buddhaghosa writes: — 



