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"Tinikhopana Bhagavato padachetiyani. Lagkadfpe ekan. Jam- 

 budipe Yonakaratthe dveti. Tattha boditho atthame vasse Kalyaniyan 

 Maniakkhi nagarajena nimantito Bhagava panchahi bhikkhusatehi pari- 

 vuto Lankadipamagamma Kalyani chetiyatthane kate ratanamandape 

 nisinno bhattakichchan katwa, Samantakute padan dassetwa agamasi." 



" There are three foot impressions of the Deity of felicity : one in the 

 Island of Lanka, and two in the Yonaka country in Jambudipo. In 

 the eighth year after his attainment of Buddhahood, the Deity of felicity 

 at the invitation of the Naga king Maniakkhi, arrived at Lanka attended 

 by five hundred priests, and having taken his seat in the ratana-mandapa 

 (gem-decorated hall) on the site of the Dagoba at Kelani, and having 

 partaken of his repast there, left the impression of his foot on the 

 Samantakiita mountain, and departed." 



These extracts shew that Buddhaghosa and Mahanama agree 

 with each other as to the origin of the Foot-print on the Samanta- 

 kuta, although the latter gives particulars which the earlier writer 

 abstains from doing. Both however are silent in regard to the 

 Foot-print in the bed of the Kelani. Buddhaghosa' s account is 

 corroborated by Fa Hian the Chinese pilgrim who visited Ceylon 

 in the year 413. During his two years' stay he visited the whole 

 of the sacred places in the Island ; but all that he remarks in 

 connection with the Foot-print is contained in the following brief 

 sentence: — "By the strength of his divine foot he [Foe, i. e. 

 Buddha] left the print of one of his feet to the north of the royal 

 city [Anuradhapura], and the print of the other on the summit of 

 a mountain." Of these two foot-prints, the one on the mountain 



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