Everywhere on the way offerings are presented to it, and thus it arrives at the hall of Buddha in the Abhayagiri-vihara.

There monks and laics are collected in crowds.

They burn incense, light lamps, and perform all the prescribed services, day and night without ceasing, till ninety days have been completed, when (the tooth) is returned to the vihara within the city.

On fast-days the door of that vihara is opened, and the forms of ceremonial reverence are observed according to the rules.
Forty le to the east of the Abhayagiri-vihara there is a hill, with a vihara on it, called the Chaitya,( 17) where there may be 2000 monks.
Among them there is a Sramana of great virtue, named Dharma-gupta,( 18) honoured and looked up to by all the kingdom.

He has lived for more than forty years in an apartment of stone, constantly showing such gentleness of heart, that he has brought snakes and rats to stop together in the same room, without doing one another any harm.
NOTES (1) It is desirable to translate {.} {.}, for which "inhabitants" or "people" is elsewhere sufficient, here by "human inhabitants." According to other accounts Singhala was originally occupied by Rakshasas or Rakshas, "demons who devour men," and "beings to be feared," monstrous cannibals or anthropophagi, the terror of the shipwrecked mariner.