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" Again in the eighth year, the king of the Nagas invited the great 

 hero, with five hundred priests. These passion-subdued sages, possessed 

 of great miraculous powers, rising aloft in the air at Jetawane, and 

 travelling through the firmament, arrived at the Island of LanM, near 

 the mouth of the river Kalyani. All the Nagas, having built a 'jewelled 

 hall,' greatly decorated and ornamented with varieties of gems, with 

 flowers of various hues and with many flags, and having covered it with 

 celestial cloths, and other cloths of great value, having put up seats, 

 and spread carpets over them, they (the Nagas) made the supreme 

 Buddha, and the priests enter (the hall) and be seated. 



"The supreme Buddha having taken his seat with his five hundred 

 disciples, entered into samapatti meditation, and extended mercy in all 

 directions. Seven times did the supreme one enter into holy meditation 

 with his disciples, and he foresaw that the great Thupa would be built 

 upon that site. 



"The Naga-Raja Maniakkhika bestowed great offerings of food, and 

 Buddha having accepted these offerings, and partaken of the same with his 

 disciples, went up in the air accompanied by them ; and the omniscient 

 one having alighted at the place (called) Dighavapi, the sympathizer of 

 mankind entered into holy meditation on that spot. 



" Having risen, after there enjoying his holy rest, the illuminator, the 

 king of the law, passing through the air, attended by his disciples, arrived 

 at Maha meghavana, the site of the Bo-tree, where the holy Bodhi -trees 

 of the former three Buddhas (of the kappa) stood, and having arrived 

 there he again entered into h.»ly meditation. 



" ' During the existence of the sarana (the continuance of the religion) 

 of the three former Buddhas, their three Bodhi-trees, stood on this spot, 

 and my own Bo-tree will stand here in future' (thought he.) 



" Having risen from the samadhi meditation, the supreme of men, with 

 his disciples went to Meghavana. There too, he entered into holy 

 meditation with his disciples, and rising therefrom the illuminator (of 

 the world) declared. * First of all Kakusandho, the chief of the world, 

 seated on the site of this very seat vouchsafed to accept this spot of 

 ground. Secondly, Konagamano, the supreme of mankind, seated on 

 the site of this very seat, vouchsafed to accept this spot of ground. 



