When clean mats have been spread, and they are all seated, the king and his ministers present their offerings according to rule and law.

(The assembly takes place), in the first, second, or third month, for the most part in the spring.
After the king has held the assembly, he further exhorts the ministers to make other and special offerings.

The doing of this extends over one, two, three, five, or even seven days; and when all is finished, he takes his own riding-horse, saddles, bridles, and waits on him himself,( 2) while he makes the noblest and most important minister of the kingdom mount him.

Then, taking fine white woollen cloth, all sorts of precious things, and articles which the Sramans require, he distributes them among them, uttering vows at the same time along with all his ministers; and when this distribution has taken place, he again redeems (whatever he wishes) from the monks.( 3) The country, being among the hills and cold, does not produce the other cereals, and only the wheat gets ripe.

After the monks have received their annual (portion of this), the mornings suddenly show the hoar-frost, and on this account the king always begs the monks to make the wheat ripen( 4) before they receive their portion.