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Romanised transliteration as printed by the translator, not the original script. This is what we hold.
1e explanation of the word will be interesting as a proof (if proof be needed) that the Ceylon scholars are not always trustworthy. He says, Khattiya-mah&sdla ti kbattiya-mah&s&r& sfira- pattd mahd-khattiyd. Eso nayo sabbattha. 1 The first three of these adjectives are applied at G&taka I, 29 (v. 212) to the religion of the Buddhas; and I think the right reading there must be phi t a m, in accordance with the corrections in two MSS. as noted by Mr. Fausboll, and not pi taw as he has preferred to read. The whole set of epithets is often used of cities. V. maha-parinibbAna-sutta. TOI drum, of the tabor, and of the lute ; the sound of singing, and the sounds of the cymbal and of the gong ; and lastly, with the cry, " Eat, drink, and be merry 1 !" 45. 'Go now, Ananda, and enter into KusinSrd, and inform the Mallas of Kusin&rS, saying, " This day, O Vfise//yfcas, in the last watch of the night, the final passing away of the TathAgata will take place. Be favourable herein, O V&se///&as, be favourable. Give no occasion to reproach yourselves hereafter, saying, * In our own village did the death of our TathSgata take place, and we took not the opportu- nity of visiting the Tath£gata in his last hours/ " ' ' Even so, Lord/ said the venerable Ananda, in assent, to the Blessed One ; and he robed himself, and taking his bowl 2 , entered into Kusinara attended by another member of the order. 1 This enumeration is found also at Gataka, p. 3, only that the conch shell is added there — wrongly, for that makes the number of cries eleven. The Mahd-Sudassana Sutta has in the corresponding passage, like the Burmese MS. noted here by Childers, conch instead of cymbal. My MS. reads cymbal here. 2 Niv&setva patta-£ivara#z dd&ya atta-dutiyo. Buddha- ghosa has, naturally enough, no comment on this oft-recurring phrase. It cannot be meant that he put on only his under-gar- ments, and carried his upper robe with him ; for then his shoulders would have been bare ; and it is quite against the rules to go into a village without all the robes having been put carefully on (Pati- mokkha, Sekhiya 1-3). I do not even understand how Ananda, with due regard to the rules of the brotherhood (see Pfoimokkha, Nisaggiya 21-29), could have had a spare robe then with him. And patta-^fvarazrc can scarcely mean simply 'bowl-robe/ refer- ring to the length of cotton cloth in which the bowl was carried over the shoulder ('Buddhist Birth Stories/ p. 71). 'With both his under-garments on, he entered Kusinard duly bowled and robed ' may be impossible English, but it probably correctly catches the 102 THE BOOK OF THE GREAT DECEASE. CH. 46.
2length of cotton cloth in which the bowl was carried over the shoulder ('Buddhist Birth Stories/ p. 71). 'With both his under-garments on, he entered Kusinard duly bowled and robed ' may be impossible English, but it probably correctly catches the 102 THE BOOK OF THE GREAT DECEASE. CH. 46. Now at that time the Mallas of Kusin&ri were assembled in the council hall on some public affair \ And the venerable Ananda went to the council hall of the Mallas of Kusin£r£ ; and when he had arrived there, he informed them, saying, ' This day, O V^se/Mas, in the last watch of the night, the final passing away of the Tath&gata will take place. Be favourable herein, O V&se/Mas, be favourable. Give no occasion to reproach your- selves hereafter, saying, " In our own village did the death of our Tathigata take place, and we took not the opportunity of visiting the Tathigata in his last hours."' 47. And when they had heard this saying of the venerable Ananda, the Mallas with their young men and maidens and their wives were grieved, and sad, and afflicted at heart. And some of them wept, dis- hevelling their hair, and stretched forth their arms and wept, fell prostrate on the ground, and rolled to and fro in anguish at the thought : ' Too soon will the Blessed One die ! Too soon will the Happy One pass away! Full soon will the Light of the world vanish away ! ' 48. Then the Mallas, with their young men and idea involved, though of course one (at least) of the under-cloths had been put on long before. See p. 122. AThera never goes about in public alone, he is always accompanied by a S£ma#era. 1 Kena^id eva karawiyena. Professor Pischel, in his edition of the Assalayana Sutta (p. 1), prints this expression kena£i deva- kara/nyena, and translates it (p. 28), 'for some religious pur- poses.' It seems to me that he has been misled by the commentary, which really presupposes the more correct division adopted by Childers. V. maha-parinibbAna-sutta. 103 maidens and their wives, being grieved and sad and afflicted at heart, went to the S&la Grove of the Mallas, to the Upavattana, and to the place where the venerable Ananda was. 49. Then the venerable Ananda thought : ' If I allow the Mallas of Kusinari, one by one, to pay their respects to the Blessed One, the whole of the Mallas of KusinSri will not have been presented to the Blessed One until this night brightens up into the dawn. Let me, now, cause the Mallas of Kusindra to stand in groups, each family in a group, and so present them to the Blessed One, saying, " Lord ! a Malla of such and such a name, with his children, his wives, his retinue, and his friends, humbly bows down at the feet of the Blessed One." ' 50.
3e dawn. Let me, now, cause the Mallas of Kusindra to stand in groups, each family in a group, and so present them to the Blessed One, saying, " Lord ! a Malla of such and such a name, with his children, his wives, his retinue, and his friends, humbly bows down at the feet of the Blessed One." ' 50. And the venerable Ananda caused the Mallas of Kusindrd to stand in groups, each family in a group, and so presented them to the Blessed One, and said : ' Lord ! a Malla of such and such a name, with his children, his wives, his retinue, and his friends, humbly bows down at the feet of the Blessed One/ 51. And after this manner the venerable Ananda presented all the Mallas of Kusinari to the Blessed One in the first watch of the night. 52. Now at that time a mendicant named Su- bhadda, who was not a believer, was dwelling at Kusindrd. And the mendicant Subhadda heard the news: 'This very day, they say, in the third watch of the night, will take place the final passing away of the Samara Gotama.' 53. Then thought the mendicant Subhadda: 'This have I heard from fellow mendicants of mine, old and well stricken in years, teachers and 104 THE BOOK OF THE GREAT DECEASE. CH. disciples, when they said: "Sometimes and full seldom do Tathigatas appear in the world, the Arahat Buddha s." Yet this day, in the last watch of the night, the final passing away of the Samaoa Gotama will take place. Now a certain feeling of uncertainty has sprung up in my mind; and this faith have I in the Samara Gotama, that he, me- thinks, is able so to present the truth that I may get rid of this feeling of uncertainty/ 54. Then the mendicant Subhadda went to the Sila Grove of the Mallas, to the Upavattana of Kusi- nara, to the place where the venerable Ananda was. 55. And when he had come there he said to the venerable Ananda : * Thus have I heard from fellow mendicants of mine, old and well stricken in years, teachers and disciples, when they said : " Sometimes and full seldom do Tath&gatas appear in the world, the Arahat Buddhas." Yet this day, in the last watch of the night, the final passing away of the Samara Gotama will take place. Now a certain feeling of uncertainty has sprung up in my mind ; and this faith have I in the Samara Gotama, that he, methinks, is able so to present the truth that I may get rid of this feeling of uncertainty. O that I, even I, Ananda, might be allowed to see the Samara Gotama ! ' 56. And when he had thus spoken the vener- able Ananda said to the mendicant Subhadda: ' Enough ! friend Subhadda. Trouble not the TathA- gata. The Blessed One is weary/ 57. And again the mendicant Subhadda [made the same request in the same words, and received the same reply]; and the third time the mendicant Subhadda [made the same request in the same words, and received the same reply]. V. mahA-parinibbAna-sutta. 105 58. Now the Blessed One overheard this con- versation of the venerable Ananda with the men- dicant Subhadda.
The source text as printed, transcribed diplomatically. Where the source language uses a non-Latin script that reaches us only through a Victorian romanisation, this layer is labelled transliteration, because that is what we hold.
Romanised transliteration as printed by the translator, not the original script. This is what we hold.
1e explanation of the word will be interesting as a proof (if proof be needed) that the Ceylon scholars are not always trustworthy. He says, Khattiya-mah&sdla ti kbattiya-mah&s&r& sfira- pattd mahd-khattiyd. Eso nayo sabbattha. 1 The first three of these adjectives are applied at G&taka I, 29 (v. 212) to the religion of the Buddhas; and I think the right reading there must be phi t a m, in accordance with the corrections in two MSS. as noted by Mr. Fausboll, and not pi taw as he has preferred to read. The whole set of epithets is often used of cities. V. maha-parinibbAna-sutta. TOI drum, of the tabor, and of the lute ; the sound of singing, and the sounds of the cymbal and of the gong ; and lastly, with the cry, " Eat, drink, and be merry 1 !" 45. 'Go now, Ananda, and enter into KusinSrd, and inform the Mallas of Kusin&rS, saying, " This day, O Vfise//yfcas, in the last watch of the night, the final passing away of the TathAgata will take place. Be favourable herein, O V&se///&as, be favourable. Give no occasion to reproach yourselves hereafter, saying, * In our own village did the death of our TathSgata take place, and we took not the opportu- nity of visiting the Tath£gata in his last hours/ " ' ' Even so, Lord/ said the venerable Ananda, in assent, to the Blessed One ; and he robed himself, and taking his bowl 2 , entered into Kusinara attended by another member of the order. 1 This enumeration is found also at Gataka, p. 3, only that the conch shell is added there — wrongly, for that makes the number of cries eleven. The Mahd-Sudassana Sutta has in the corresponding passage, like the Burmese MS. noted here by Childers, conch instead of cymbal. My MS. reads cymbal here. 2 Niv&setva patta-£ivara#z dd&ya atta-dutiyo. Buddha- ghosa has, naturally enough, no comment on this oft-recurring phrase. It cannot be meant that he put on only his under-gar- ments, and carried his upper robe with him ; for then his shoulders would have been bare ; and it is quite against the rules to go into a village without all the robes having been put carefully on (Pati- mokkha, Sekhiya 1-3). I do not even understand how Ananda, with due regard to the rules of the brotherhood (see Pfoimokkha, Nisaggiya 21-29), could have had a spare robe then with him. And patta-^fvarazrc can scarcely mean simply 'bowl-robe/ refer- ring to the length of cotton cloth in which the bowl was carried over the shoulder ('Buddhist Birth Stories/ p. 71). 'With both his under-garments on, he entered Kusinard duly bowled and robed ' may be impossible English, but it probably correctly catches the 102 THE BOOK OF THE GREAT DECEASE. CH. 46.
2length of cotton cloth in which the bowl was carried over the shoulder ('Buddhist Birth Stories/ p. 71). 'With both his under-garments on, he entered Kusinard duly bowled and robed ' may be impossible English, but it probably correctly catches the 102 THE BOOK OF THE GREAT DECEASE. CH. 46. Now at that time the Mallas of Kusin&ri were assembled in the council hall on some public affair \ And the venerable Ananda went to the council hall of the Mallas of Kusin£r£ ; and when he had arrived there, he informed them, saying, ' This day, O V^se/Mas, in the last watch of the night, the final passing away of the Tath&gata will take place. Be favourable herein, O V&se/Mas, be favourable. Give no occasion to reproach your- selves hereafter, saying, " In our own village did the death of our Tathigata take place, and we took not the opportunity of visiting the Tathigata in his last hours."' 47. And when they had heard this saying of the venerable Ananda, the Mallas with their young men and maidens and their wives were grieved, and sad, and afflicted at heart. And some of them wept, dis- hevelling their hair, and stretched forth their arms and wept, fell prostrate on the ground, and rolled to and fro in anguish at the thought : ' Too soon will the Blessed One die ! Too soon will the Happy One pass away! Full soon will the Light of the world vanish away ! ' 48. Then the Mallas, with their young men and idea involved, though of course one (at least) of the under-cloths had been put on long before. See p. 122. AThera never goes about in public alone, he is always accompanied by a S£ma#era. 1 Kena^id eva karawiyena. Professor Pischel, in his edition of the Assalayana Sutta (p. 1), prints this expression kena£i deva- kara/nyena, and translates it (p. 28), 'for some religious pur- poses.' It seems to me that he has been misled by the commentary, which really presupposes the more correct division adopted by Childers. V. maha-parinibbAna-sutta. 103 maidens and their wives, being grieved and sad and afflicted at heart, went to the S&la Grove of the Mallas, to the Upavattana, and to the place where the venerable Ananda was. 49. Then the venerable Ananda thought : ' If I allow the Mallas of Kusinari, one by one, to pay their respects to the Blessed One, the whole of the Mallas of KusinSri will not have been presented to the Blessed One until this night brightens up into the dawn. Let me, now, cause the Mallas of Kusindra to stand in groups, each family in a group, and so present them to the Blessed One, saying, " Lord ! a Malla of such and such a name, with his children, his wives, his retinue, and his friends, humbly bows down at the feet of the Blessed One." ' 50.
3e dawn. Let me, now, cause the Mallas of Kusindra to stand in groups, each family in a group, and so present them to the Blessed One, saying, " Lord ! a Malla of such and such a name, with his children, his wives, his retinue, and his friends, humbly bows down at the feet of the Blessed One." ' 50. And the venerable Ananda caused the Mallas of Kusindrd to stand in groups, each family in a group, and so presented them to the Blessed One, and said : ' Lord ! a Malla of such and such a name, with his children, his wives, his retinue, and his friends, humbly bows down at the feet of the Blessed One/ 51. And after this manner the venerable Ananda presented all the Mallas of Kusinari to the Blessed One in the first watch of the night. 52. Now at that time a mendicant named Su- bhadda, who was not a believer, was dwelling at Kusindrd. And the mendicant Subhadda heard the news: 'This very day, they say, in the third watch of the night, will take place the final passing away of the Samara Gotama.' 53. Then thought the mendicant Subhadda: 'This have I heard from fellow mendicants of mine, old and well stricken in years, teachers and 104 THE BOOK OF THE GREAT DECEASE. CH. disciples, when they said: "Sometimes and full seldom do Tathigatas appear in the world, the Arahat Buddha s." Yet this day, in the last watch of the night, the final passing away of the Samaoa Gotama will take place. Now a certain feeling of uncertainty has sprung up in my mind; and this faith have I in the Samara Gotama, that he, me- thinks, is able so to present the truth that I may get rid of this feeling of uncertainty/ 54. Then the mendicant Subhadda went to the Sila Grove of the Mallas, to the Upavattana of Kusi- nara, to the place where the venerable Ananda was. 55. And when he had come there he said to the venerable Ananda : * Thus have I heard from fellow mendicants of mine, old and well stricken in years, teachers and disciples, when they said : " Sometimes and full seldom do Tath&gatas appear in the world, the Arahat Buddhas." Yet this day, in the last watch of the night, the final passing away of the Samara Gotama will take place. Now a certain feeling of uncertainty has sprung up in my mind ; and this faith have I in the Samara Gotama, that he, methinks, is able so to present the truth that I may get rid of this feeling of uncertainty. O that I, even I, Ananda, might be allowed to see the Samara Gotama ! ' 56. And when he had thus spoken the vener- able Ananda said to the mendicant Subhadda: ' Enough ! friend Subhadda. Trouble not the TathA- gata. The Blessed One is weary/ 57. And again the mendicant Subhadda [made the same request in the same words, and received the same reply]; and the third time the mendicant Subhadda [made the same request in the same words, and received the same reply]. V. mahA-parinibbAna-sutta. 105 58. Now the Blessed One overheard this con- versation of the venerable Ananda with the men- dicant Subhadda.
The source text as printed, transcribed diplomatically. Where the source language uses a non-Latin script that reaches us only through a Victorian romanisation, this layer is labelled transliteration, because that is what we hold.
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