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by machines from the Abhaya tank, serving the stupa with water, he performed a great offering. With a hundred carts of lime, together with oil, properly, having caused the lime plaster to be kneaded, he performed the plastering work. Having caused a coral net to be made, having caused it to be placed on the cetiya, golden lotuses, the size of a wheel, in the joints (he placed). Having caused strings of pearls to be attached from there, up to the lowest lotuses, having caused them to hang, he worshipped the Great Stupa. He, having heard the sound of group chanting, such as that, in the relic chamber, resolved: "Without seeing that, I will not rise up." At the eastern main base, without food, he lay down. The Elders, having caused a door to be made, led him to the relic chamber. The king, having seen all the splendor of the Relic Chamber, came forth and worshipped with such flower-shaped offerings. With fragrant perfumes, with fresh pots, with collyrium and orpiment, and also with red arsenic. When the red arsenic, washed down by rain, stood ankle-deep in the shrine courtyard, he made flower offerings. When the entire stupa courtyard was filled with fragrant mud, and in the holes of the painted mats, he made flower offerings. Having blocked the water channels, and filled the pots likewise, with many lamp wicks, and made many wick flames. Also with honey oil, and likewise with sesame oil, and likewise with very many flames of cloth wicks. With these, as mentioned, the warrior king made offerings to the Great Stupa seven times, seven times, each distinctively. And regularly each year, the excellent plastering ceremony, and the bathing ceremony of the Bodhi, and likewise of the great Bodhi tree. And twenty-eight grand Great Vesakha offerings, and eighty-four thousand minor offerings. Various plays and dances, and diverse musical instruments played; he, full of faith, caused a great offering at the Great Stupa. And three times a day, he attended the Buddha's presence; twice, he regularly caused the flower drum to be beaten. And regular alms-giving, and the giving of invitation offerings, oil, treacle, cloth, and other requisites suitable for ascetics. He gave much to the Sangha, and also land for the shrine; the warrior king gave there for the maintenance of the shrine. Always for a thousand monks, in the monastery on Cetiya Mountain, he, the king, caused ticket-food to be given. And in the three attendance halls called Cintāmaṇi and Mucela, and likewise in the delightful lotus-house and umbrella-palace. Feeding monks engaged in the study of texts in five places, he always supported them with requisites, reverent in the Dhamma. Whatever meritorious deeds were customary for ancient kings, and related to the Dispensation, he performed all... The King of Āṭika. 68. When that King Bhābhakara passed away, his younger brother, named Mahādāṭhimahānāga, ruled the kingdom. 69. For twelve years, devoted to various merits, he had kiñjakkha stones laid on the Great Stūpa. 70. He made a sand-boundary, with a wide courtyard; and provided dhamma seats in all monasteries on the island. 71. The king had the Great Stūpa at Ambatthala built, remembering the qualities of the Sage at the time of its completion. 72. Giving up his own life, he lay down there himself; and having placed his own body there, he completed the Cetiya. 73. At the four entrances, he placed four jewel-studded arches; well-crafted by skilled artisans, shining with various jewels. 74. Having adorned the Cetiya with a casing of various jewels; he also offered golden bubbles and pearl garlands there. 75. He decorated the Cetiya mountain-slope for a yojana; and had a beautiful pathway made all around the four entrances. 76. On both sides of the pathway, he spread out shops; and decorated with banners and arches here and there. 77. He had lamp-garlands shining all around; and arranged for plays, dances, songs, and music. 78. From the Kadamba river to the Cetiya mountain, he had a covering spread for walking with clean feet. 79. With dances, songs, and music, they held a festival there; and he gave great alms at the four gates of the city. 80. He made continuous lamp-garlands throughout the entire island; even in the waters of the ocean, all around for a yojana. 81. That beautiful offering, made for the greatness of the Cetiya, is called here the grand offering of Giribhaṇḍa. 82. To the bhikkhus who had gathered at that offering assembly, the king, having set up alms in eight places, 83. And having struck eight golden drums there, commenced a great alms-giving for twenty-four thousand (bhikkhus). 84. He gave six robes, and arranged for release from bonds; he always had work done by those appointed at the four gates. 85. By former kings... placed, and his brother placed likewise; Without neglecting meritorious deeds, the king had all done. 86. His own self, the queen, the two princes, The elephant and the auspicious horse; Though restrained by the Saṅgha, the king gave them to the Saṅgha. 87. He gave to the community of monks Six hundred thousand (worth); And to the community of nuns, One hundred thousand (worth). 88. Having given suitable requisites, The expert in methods; He himself, and the rest, He released from the Saṅgha. 89. In Kālāyana Kaṇṇika, The king built the monastery Called Maṇināga Pabbata, And also the one called Kaḷa. 90. On the bank of Kubu Bandhanadī, And also the Samuddavihāra; And in Huvāvakaṇṇika, The one called Cūḷanagapabbata. 91. In the monastery called Pāsāṇadīpa, Built by himself; To the novice who brought water, The king, 92. Pleased with his service, Gave to that monastery Eight yojanas all around, As Saṅgha property, the king. 93. And in Maṇḍavāpi monastery, The king, pleased with the novice, Had a monastery given, And Saṅgha property likewise. 94. Thus, having obtained immeasurable prosperity With good wisdom, Free from pride and heedlessness, Having abandoned attachment to desires; Bringing joy to the people, Delighting in meritorious deeds, Performing abundant and various merits. Here ends the thirty-fourth chapter, Called "The Exposition of Eleven Kings," In the Mahāvaṃsa, composed for the serene joy and emotion of the good. The thirty-fifth chapter, "The Twelve Kings" 1. Āmaṇḍagāmaṇyabhaya, after Mahādāṭhika; His son reigned for nine years and eight months. 2. He made a parasol upon a parasol On the beautiful Great Thūpa; And likewise he made the foot-platform And the head-platform. 3. Likewise in the Lohapāsāda, In the Thūpa and in the Posatha hall; He made the inner courtyard And the inner veranda. 4. In both places he made A beautiful jeweled pavilion; And the king had the Rajataleṇa monastery built. 5. Near Mahāgāmeṇḍavāpi, He built on the south side; And gave it to the southern monastery, A meritorious donation. no. 6. The king caused no slaughter throughout the island, having planted all kinds of fruit trees here and there. 7. The king then had the measure called 'sakubhaṇḍaka' filled with leaves, and made a cloth wrapper. 8. He gave it to the entire Sangha with a joyful mind; having filled the bowls, the wise village chief then measured it. 9. The Khattiya king killed his father, King Taṅkaniṭṭhokaṇirāja-Tissa, and reigned in the city for three years. 10. He decided that the Uposatha house was in Cekiya; the bhikkhus, sixty in number, were involved in the king's offense. 11. The king had them seized with their possessions on Cetiya Mountain, and cast the immoral ones into the Kaṇira cave. 12. After King Kaṇirāja, his son, Cūḷābhaya, the Khattiya king, reigned for one year. 13. On the southern side near the city, on the bank of the Goṇaka River, the king built the Cūḷagallaka vihāra. 14. After Cūḷābhaya, his younger sister, Sīvali, daughter of Āmaṇḍa, reigned for four months. 15. Then Āmaṇḍa's nephew removed Sīvali, and by the name of Iḷanāga, raised the parasol in the city. 16. When that king went to Tissavāpi in his first year, many Lambakaṇṇas left him and came to the city. 17. Not seeing them there, the king, angered, had them make a great stupa, without doubt, on the side of the tank. 18. He made them overseers, and also appointed Caṇḍālas; because of this, all the Lambakaṇṇas, being united, 19. seized that king, imprisoned him in his own house, and themselves managed the kingdom; then the king's queen 20. adorned her son, Prince Candamukhasiva, and giving him into the hands of nurses, sent him to the auspicious elephant. 21. Saying a message, the nurses led him there, and told the queen's message to all the auspicious elephants: 22. "This is your son, who is virtuous, the master is imprisoned; he is saved from death by enemies, by you..." his destruction. 23. “You, indeed, kill him, this is the queen’s word,” they said; And having said so, they made him sleep at the elephant’s foot. 24. Distressed, he wept, the nāga broke the enclosure; Entering the great forest, he closed the gate firmly. 25. Opening the door where the king was seated in the courtyard; He seated him on his shoulder, and went to the great ford. 26. Having made the king board the boat, the elephant; From the other side of the river, he himself ascended Malaya. 27. Having lived on the other bank, for three years, the khattiya; Taking his army, came by boat to Rohaṇa. 28. At the ford, in the gravel pit, having disembarked, the king; Gathered a great army there in Rohaṇa. 29. The king’s auspicious elephant, then to southern Malaya; Came to Rohaṇa itself, to perform his duties. 30. Near the great elder named Mahāpaduma, who was a Jātaka reciter, and resided in Tulādhāra. 31. Having heard the Kapi Jātaka, filled with faith in the Bodhisatta; He gave a hundred thousand of his own wealth to Nāgamahāvihāra. 32. Having done so, he built a thūpa, and enlarged it as it stood; He also built Tissavāpi, and also the Duravhavāpika. 33.