request of the Nágá king Nermadá, who dwelt in the river, partook of the divine food presented by him, and gave him some practical admonitions, and established a great multitude of Nágas in the initiatory observance of religion. And at the request of the Naga king Nermadá, he made an imprint of his glorious right foot, endowed with a hundred and eight auspicious signs, on a beautiful strand like a heap of pearl dust, on the bank of that river, on which the rippling waves strike and break themselves, and he provided the Nágas with the means of acquiring merits.

44. When the spreading waves strike over the heap of sand on which the glorious foot was imprinted on the shore of that river in the Yonaka country, the glorious foot-mark is covered by the water, and when the waves retire, the imprint of the foot with all its auspicious signs reappears, like a seal impressed upon the surface of a lump of extremely white bees-wax, without the slightest. diminution of any of the blissful marks, satisfying the eyes of every one who sees it. And it imparts abundant happiness to the This is a páribhógika memorial.

world up to this day. 45. And from that place he proceeded to the rock of Sachchabaddha, and at the request of a certain priest called Sachchabaddha, he imprinted on the top of the thick blue rock of that name his glorious foot, endowed with a hundred and eight auspicious signs, such as Siriwasa, Swastika, and so forth, as if a foot smeared with ointment had been pressed upon a lump of wet clay, without the defect of a single jot of the parts of those auspicious marks, so as to be clear to the bodily eye of every one that sees them. This also is a memorial of the foot of my Buddha.

46. Thence Buddha, proceeding from the said Sachchabaddha mountain, recollected the invitation which the Nága king Maniakkha,-who enjoys the Nága prosperity in that Nága region

which had arisen contiguous to the new stream of water named the Kelani river, perhaps from its resemblance to an auspicious body of water emptying itself into the ocean, having fallen at the foot of the rock after the entire washing and purification of the noble mountain Samantak úṭa (Adam's Peak) of the Island of Lanka, when the water of the auspicious consecration was poured on the top of its head for purification, previous to its sacred investment with the mark of the glorious foot,—had made on a former occasion, when he had gone to Maninaga isle, for the purpose of assisting his nephew Mahódara, the prince of the Nágas, in a war which he was carrying on against the Nága Prince Chulódara, having seen Buddha, who had mercifully come there, that he should visit Kelani;-and on the day of full moon of the mouth of Wesak (May) he began to proceed, attended by five hundred sanctified. priests, including the eighty dignitaries.

47. In the place where Buddha was residing, there was, close to his bed chamber, a noble Nága named Sumana, enjoying great happiness, constantly attended by sixteen thousand Nága virgins; and he, having seen the personal gracefulness of Buddha, greatly admired him; and he had his mother as an object of veneration, and rendered her such services as worshipping and honouring her, and shampooing her feet.

48. When Buddha was about to depart, he invited this noble Naga who stood by, and said "Follow us with thy retinue." And this noble Nága immediately obeyed these words, and said "Yea, my Lord," and took his train of about sixty millions of Nágas, and proceeded, holding over his head a full blossomed champack tree, so that the rays of the sun might not strike against the glorious person of Buddha.

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Afterwards the meritorious Buddha, having arrived at the

Nága city of the Nága king Maniakkha at the Kelani river in the Island of Lanka, set upon the throne completed with all sorts of gems in the golden court, miraculously brought into existence by Maniakkha, and remained with his attendant priests on the site of the Kelani monument, and made refection of the divine food presented to him by the noble Nága, and delivered to him some practical admonitions; and, at the request of that noble Nága, he made an impression of his glorious foot under that river of Kelani, in order that the Nága king might make offerings to him, and he initiated many thousands of other Nágas into the threefold refuge, and remained sitting there increasing their merits.

50. Then the great god Sumana, resident at the divine mansion on the summit of the peak Samanala (Adam's Peak), who had heard of these circumstances, came with his numerous retinue of gods to the site of the Kelani monument, having prepared and brought things for offerings to him, and saw Buddha; and took drums and other musical instruments, and offered him immense divine fragrant flowers, lamps, incense, and other things, and worshipped him, by applying to the ground five places of the body, and prayed Buddha to come to the Samanala mountain, while the Nágas remained worshipping him.

51. Then the great god Sumana, resident of the Samanala mountain, addressed him in six such stanzas as these, standing before Buddha, with closed hands upon his head, addressing him thus, praying:

52. "O great Buddha, the lord of the whole universe, it was "with thy compassion to sentient beings that thou hadst entered "the impassable ocean of Sansára, and moved about during an immense period of time, suffering pains from the moment of thy "obtaining, at the foot of the Dipankara Buddha, the sanction to

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"become Buddha, and completed the full thirty páramitás. I am in"cluded also among the number of all the sentient beings, such as "Gods, Brahmas, Asuras, Men, Nágás, Supernas, Yakshas, Rák"shas, Siddhas, Widdhyadharas, and others who enjoy the beneficial "rewards from that compassion of thine. Have mercy there"fore upon me, and in that visible mountainous forest, uplifted "and graceful in all glory, beauteous in green foliage, tender "leaves, waterfalls, and rainbows, pressed by the striking of wind, "delightful with clusters of lotuses and flashings of lightnings, "resounding with the noise of gentle breezes and of the roaring "clouds, resembling the black peak of a rainy cloud over the eastern "horizon, sprinkled by the fall of the extremely white ambrosial "showers of rain, situated in the midst of that visible wilderness "like a peacock's neck, being an object eligible for the ceremonies at "the offerings made to Buddha, being an abode for gods and "goddesses engaged in divine sports, giving pleasure to multi"tudes of gods performing dances that properly correspond to the "airs of the music variously produced by the simultaneous playing "of the five kinds of sonorous instruments of átata, witata, witatáta, "ghana and susira, constantly kept up by describing various "kinds of objects, such as trees, creepers, rivers, quadrupeds, and "birds, and singing the airs agreeable to these on the summit of "that peaked mountain Samantakúța, appearing like a noble "Airáwana elephant,† whose whole body is entirely blanched with "the white colour of the falling of dews, and who stretches forth,

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"A'tata," a tam-tam beaten with the hands only; 'witata,' a tam-tam beaten with sticks only; 'witatáta,' one beaten with the hand on one side, and a stick on the other; 'ghana,' bells; 'susira,' trumpets.

†The name of the elephant ridden by the god Sekraia.

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"like rows of probosces, a multitude of rivers that fall in different directions, graceful with rows of waves rising up at the points of "rocks, splendid with a multitude of round and rising rocks like "frontal globes, and of root-stems of various shapes like a mul"titude of tusks, dignified with cataracts, like the gently dropping "exudation of juice; and with slabs of great stones, like temples;"impress there this thy tender, delicate and glorious foot, and "improve the prosperous condition of the period of five thousand "years."

53. The lord of the biped race, who gives commands conducive to the happiness of the whole universe, accepted the prayer offered by the noble god Sumana in stanzas like these, and when he was proceeding from the city of Kelani, having ascended the air, attended by five hundred sanctified priests, including the eighty dignified disciples, like the great Brahmah Sahampati, attended by the train of Brahmas, the noble god Sumana covered himself on one shoulder with a vesture of various lustres, dressed himself with divine ornaments of undiminished splendour, and habited with long broad and white divine silk garments, and himself looking like a pillar of cloud emitting torrents of rain water, enveloped with rainbows and flashings of lightnings, stood on the right hand side of the omniscient Buddha, bending himself with the utmost marks of veneration, and giving him his hand, proceeded.

54. Then in front of him proceeded in attendance many hundreds and thousands of female deities, exhibiting various feats of dancing, forming themselves into different concerts, shewing their gestures comformably to the nine sentiments of dancing, descriptive of the six acts of the feet, sixty-four of the hands, eight of the eyes, and five of the head, and standing in the midst of a