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The following line occurs in one of the stanzas in the 

 " Jataka Patha," a work which presents many irregularities in 

 Pali grammar: "Name namantassa bhaje bhajantan." ("I 

 salute him who salutes me, I serve him who serves me "). 



I am also enabled to propose a material emendation to the 

 reading of another important legend. I allude to the legend 

 regarding the acquisition and presentation of the Jetavana 

 monastery. It is as follows : — "Jetavana Anddhapediko deti 

 koti santhatena ketd" which General Cunningham has trans- 

 lated, " Anathapedika buys (ketd) the Jetavana for certain 

 kotis of money." This translation, though verbally inaccurate, 

 is substantially correct. But Professor Max Miiller throws 

 doubts on the correctness of the reading, contending that " At 

 present this interpretation must be considered as hypothetical 

 only." 



Professor Childers has, however, most satisfactorily 

 removed all doubts on the interpretation of this legend by 

 citing a most important passage from Buddhaghosa's Com- 

 mentary on the Jatakas, and proposes to read and translate it 

 as follows : — 



"Jetdvanan Anddhapediko deti koti santhatena ketd." 

 "Anadhapindiko presents Jetavana, havingbecomeitspurchaser 

 for a layer of kdti." This is the reading which I myself, 

 and I believe others in Ceylon, naturally adopted when the 

 Proceedings of the Bengal Asiatic Society containing an 

 account of the General's discoveries first reached us. 



Mr. Childers remarked in the Academy of December 12 

 last : — " It would be interesting to meet with the original and 

 detailed account of the purchase, but at present I confess I 

 do not know where to look for it. It is, however, in one of 

 the early books of the Tripitakas, and if so, we shall meet 

 with it sooner or later." This induced me to request 

 the learned High Priest of Adam's Peak to find out for me 

 the account referred to in any of the books of the Tripitaka, 

 and heat once referred me to " Chula Vagga," one of the books 

 of the " Vinaya Pitaka," where I was glad to find.it. It is sub- 

 stantially the same as the account given by Spence Hardy in 



