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king also, moved by great devotion, decked himself in all the 

 royal ornaments and, in the midst of his four-fold army, placed the 

 two relics of the Tooth and the Alms-bowl in a carriage of great 

 splendour, decorated with all the ornaments of an equipage. Then he 

 caused rows of men to carry before the procession these articles and 

 divers others that were used at feasts ; namely, banners of gold and 

 banners of silver, water-pots of gold and water-pots of silver, chowries 

 of gold and chowries of silver, caskets of gold and caskets of silver, 

 beautiful fans of gold and fans of silver, poklcharanis* of gold and 

 pohhharanis of silver, and flower vases made of gold and flower 

 vases made of silver. Then the king, followed with the sound of the 

 five instruments of music and forming a procession of great magni- 

 ficence, carried the relics by stages along the decorated highway into the 

 city of Sirivaddhana, and placed them on the seat that was prepared for 

 Buddha in the spacious ornamented hall that was built in the middle 

 of the vihara, and caused offerings to be made thereunto by the 

 divers people (who had assembled there). 



And when the morning was come all the people arrayed themselves 

 in their best garments, and, being exceeding desirous of gaining merit, 

 went up with flowers of the jasmine and champac and ironwood, and 

 other kinds of flowers of divers hues mixed with flowers of gold (leaf) 

 and the like, and devoutly made their offerings to the Tooth-relic and 

 the Bowl-relic. And they made offerings also of many heaps of sweet 

 white rice that looked like heaps of glory that had long gathered 

 around the great king, and of divers kinds of fruit, such as plantains, 

 jak, mango, and the like fruits that were exceeding ripe, sweet, and 

 luscious. Then the king himself, in like manner, made offerings of 

 divers kinds to those two noble relics ; and then he who was taught in 

 all good manners ministered unto the Order and carefully provided 

 them with food and drink, — food hard and soft, and drink that could be 

 sucked, and drink that could be swallowed. And the lord of the land, 

 who was exceeding delighted on that occasion, bestowed on several 

 hundreds of priests the eight things that were needful for monks. 

 Afterwards, throughout the three watches of the night, he illuminated 

 the vihara all round with lacs and crores of lighted lamps fed with 

 perfumed oil, and with garlands of divers lamps perfumed with 

 camphor oil, so that the whole face of the land looked like the firma- 

 ment that was studded with stars. And the lord of the land held a 

 feast in honour of Buddha, to which all men were drawn by the sweet 

 songs of singers and the dances of many dancers as they danced in divers 

 characters on the excellent stages that were raised here and there, — a 

 feast the tumult whereof was greatly increased by the sound of the 

 five musical instruments which, like a blast proceeding from the sea of 

 his merits, sufficed to drown the roar of the ocean and to put to shame 



* Pokkharani is a lotus pond. These were probably miniature represen- 

 tations of it. 



