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our united efforts, let us give strength and confidence to the good 



and righteous, and crush the wicked and the impious/ " 



After some time spent in arrangements and preliminary discussions, 

 the Council was held a. b. 102, under the presidency of Rassa, and 

 was attended by 700 priests, chief amongst whom were six of the 

 disciples of Ananda, and two of those of the venerable Anuradha. 

 " The assembly lasted eight months. The canon of scriptures was 

 likewise arranged and determined as it had been done by Maha 

 Kassapa, in the first Council." * 



The third great Council, held in the seventeenth year of the 

 reign of Asoka, has already been referred to."f 



At each of these Councils it is stated Attakatha or Commentaries 

 were compiled, and adopted as canonical by the assembled priests. 



Now with reference to these Councils, the occasions which called 

 for them, and the authenticated results, the Dipawansa makes the 



. * Bp. Bigandet's Life of Gaudama, pp. 364—368. 



f The accounts in the text, from Burmese authorities, are corroborated and con- 

 firmed by the Thibetan narrative referring to the same events. In an abstract 

 by Professor Wilson of an analysis of the Thibetan version of the Pitakattaya 

 made by M. Csoma de Korosi, the following observations occur : — 



" On the death of Sakya, Kasyapa, the head of the Baud'dhas, directs 500 

 superior monks to make a compilation of the doctrines of their master. The " Do " 

 is also compiled by Ananda ; the " Dul-va " by Upali ; and the " Ma-moon," Abhi- 

 dharma, or Prajna-paramita, by himself. He presides over the sect at Kajagriha 

 till his death. 



" Ananda succeeds as hierarch. On his death his relics are divided between the 

 Lichchivis and the King of Magadha; and two chaityas are built for their recep- 

 tion, one at Allahabad, the other at Pataliputra. 



" One hundred years after the disappearance of Sakya, his religious is carried 

 into Kashmir. 



" One hundred and ten years after the same event, in the reign of Asdka, king of 

 Pataliputra, a new compilation of the laws of Sakya was prepared by 700 monks, 

 at Yanga-pa-chen-Allahabad." — Tumour's Mahawanso, Introd. p. xlviii. 



