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Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms

CHAPTER XXXVIII
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In the city there has been reared also the vihara of Buddha's tooth, on which, as well as on the other, the seven precious substances have been employed.
The king practises the Brahmanical purifications, and the sincerity of the faith and reverence of the population inside the city are also great.

Since the establishment of government in the kingdom there has been no famine or scarcity, no revolution or disorder.

In the treasuries of the monkish communities there are many precious stones, and the priceless manis.

One of the kings (once) entered one of those treasuries, and when he looked all round and saw the priceless pearls, his covetous greed was excited, and he wished to take them to himself by force.

In three days, however, he came to himself, and immediately went and bowed his head to the ground in the midst of the monks, to show his repentance of the evil thought.


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