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Now, I have built for that king's shrine-like artificial body A two-storied circular mansion, like an umbrella over an umbrella, And having attached a golden spire to the top of the shrine, like a crown, He has been brought to a state of constant honor and reverence by all gods and humans," Saying this, having assigned many villages and fields to the shrine, And thousands of attendants, And having built various monasteries at the foot of the mountain, Complete with hundreds of pavilions, surrounding walkways, night and day residences, Dharma halls, gate towers, walls, and other components, And having given many villages and fields with their families For the constant provision of necessities to the thousands of monks residing there, "May this great monastery, like a raised flag of the great Lekha country, Be a family treasure for the royal people, the landowners, Not to be diminished by all the royals." "The realm must always be protected," thus instructing the royal princes amidst the populace, even after going to Anuradhapura, he caused great meritorious deeds to be done in various monasteries to counteract that evil deed, and from then on, that Hatthavanagalla Mahavihara, being renovated from time to time by the kings who attained sovereignty over Lanka and by the great ministers, continued with undiminished resources. Thus ends the ninth chapter, the Vaṭṭulavimānuppatti. 107. Then at another time, while residing in a certain monastery, among the great community of monks, a certain elder, being an open-air dweller, sat down in a certain place within the monastery, applying himself to meditation, developing insight, and filling the sky with the great earth-shaking sound, attained arahantship. 108. Then King Upatissa, ruling the kingdom, hearing that frightening earth-sound at night, and not obtaining sleep due to the terror of "What will happen to me?", was tormented by sorrow. Then the deity dwelling in the white parasol said, "O great king! There is no inauspicious event here. A certain elder in the Hatthavanagalla Mahavihara has attained arahantship." When the cause of the earth-shaking sound at the time of his attainment of arahantship was explained, that the elder, while doing meritorious deeds in the past, made a wish that he might shake the earth together with the sky and become an arahant, and this was the fruit of that wish, he was reassured. 109. Hearing that, the king, with a heart pleased that the destruction of defilements of that elder was more distinguished than the attainment of arahantship by other monks, after paying homage to that elder, thinking, "I will honor the place that served as his seat during the great festival of his destruction of influxes by building a two-story palace," taking a great force, went there, and in that place, having built a great five-storied palace, having it adorned with various paintings, having it covered with gold-inlaid copper sheets, having it decorated like a celestial mansion, that one whose influxes are destroyed... Having settled the Saṅgha of monks there, and providing for them with the four requisites, he made villages and fields near the monastery for his retinue, and then departed. 110. Then, after a long time had passed, some thieves living in the Malay country, having gathered together, plundered villages, and intoxicated with great wealth, they gave wealth and raised an army. Becoming mostly brigands, they plundered great monasteries, taking the golden tile coverings, and demolishing the great palace, they brought it down. 111. At that time, a king named Moggallāna, ruling the kingdom, having heard that news, sent spies to them, and by gifts, flattery, and division, he split them from one another. Those thieves, splitting apart, fought with each other, and became weak by themselves. Then that king, knowing they were disunited, taking his army, went there, and having seized them separately, and punished them, he proclaimed a decree of safety in the kingdom, and made the country well-established. Having restored the monasteries they had destroyed to their original state, and having heard that they had torn down the great palace when taking the gold, knowing that "just like before, covered with golden tiles, such a disaster will happen again," he had it made three-storied, and having built the palace as before, he covered it with clay and stones, and repaired the circular building, and restored the entire monastery, and then departed. Thus ends the tenth chapter, on the origin of the palace. 112. Then, among the many lords of Laṅkā, ornaments of Laṅkā, great in merit, power, and prowess, devoted to the Triple Gem, born from the accumulated merit of past deeds, deficient in the ways of established policy, lacking the proper methods of governing, and with ministers and people mostly soft and foolish, and mostly opposed to each other, while such things were happening, by some terrible evil deed done in the past by the inhabitants of Laṅkā, an army from foreign lands, ignorant of the teachings of the Buddha, and embracing wrong views, entered from Jambudīpa, and made the entire island of Laṅkā full of various dangers. 113. Then, that foreign army pressed harder. Being oppressed, kings, chief ministers, and many thousands of people, with hearts terrified by fear, seeking refuge, villages, market towns, and cities were deserted, and they lived with difficulty in various mountain caves. Then, the great monks of Uttaramūḷa, responsible for protecting the Buddha's tooth relic, taking the tooth relic and the two excellent bowl relics, approached a mountain fortress called Kunnamalaya, a region difficult to enter, but unable to care for them there, they buried them in the ground and went as they pleased. 114. Then, Vijayabāhu, a king named Vijayabāhu, the rightful son of Vijayamalla, a descendant in unbroken succession from the royal sons of equal lineage sent by King Dhammāsoka, the ornament of the solar race, the lord of all Jambudīpa, along with the great Jaya Mahābodhi tree, knowing the right time, following the path of good conduct for seven years, possessing great strength and vehicles, having built a great city called Jambuddoṇi, and living there, having conquered all enemies with a great army, bringing the blessed tooth relic and the excellent bowl relic from the region of the Kuntala mountain, having built a palace that shone exceedingly like a celestial chariot, having placed that pair of relics in it, attending to them with great offerings and reverence, generating great merit in the eighty-four thousand aggregates of the Buddha's teachings, like the meritorious King Sirisaṅghabodhi, a king who had attained the supreme sacrifice of his head, in a delightful region purified by the dust of the feet of many thousands of arahants, in the circular shrine, adorning the Hatthavanagalla Mahāvihāra, built by King Goṭhābhaya, when the heretical army of Colas and Raḷas, who had come to plunder the kingdom, broke open the great stupa, as if the relics, like life, had disappeared from within, striking the heart's substance and flesh, and destroying the golden fence, repairing it with the method of applying plaster, from the time of the flower offering onwards, having carefully removed it, a great golden stupa. Having built a monastery named Ikāmabhadva, and given fields and villages with their inhabitants, and established a perpetual alms-offering for the monks residing there, he made that Hatthavanagalla Great Monastery prosperous in every way. 115. Then, when that Lord of Lanka, the relic of Kittisiri, had passed away, his son, King Parakkamabhuja by name, having attained the royal consecration after the lapse of one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four years from the time when our Blessed One, the Arahant, the Perfectly Enlightened One, sitting at the foot of the Bodhi tree, had vanquished the forces of Māra and attained the supreme Enlightenment, a great multitude, won over by various means of beneficence, constantly gratified with the four requisites, a multitude of many thousands of monks, his royal lineage cleansed of enemies by the strength of his arm, had a jeweled casket adorned with many gems and jewels, a golden casket with five thousand pieces of gold, and a silver casket with twenty-five thousand pieces of silver made for the Sacred Tooth Relic, and with a heart exceedingly pleased, carefully placing it therein, and having adorned his own city and the Temple of the Tooth Relic like the abode of Sakka, and reverently taking up the excellent Tooth Relic, and recalling many of the acts of the Blessed One, he made earnest supplication, saying: "Formerly, many kings were pleased by the exhibition of miracles; even now, my ears are filled with the nectar of that traditional tale; therefore, by some special miracle, may the recovery of my sight be made fruitful." 116. At that moment, that Tooth Relic, resting on the lotus of his hand, performed a miracle, displaying the grace of a royal swan. How? Just as in his last existence, the Bodhisatta, immediately after being born from his mother's womb, descending from the bundle of fine cloths brought by the best of men, though a babe, appeared like one sixteen years of age, though unadorned, appeared adorned with many clothes and ornaments, though walking on the ground, appeared to be walking through the sky, causing wonder to all people, even so then, that Lord Tooth Relic, sugabim Shining with the characteristic form of a child, scattering rays of various kinds, he knew the honor of the people who had gathered there. For it was said: 117. "The royal swan from the lotus hand of the lord of Lanka, Fashioning the tooth relic, the form of the great sage; Shining with countless rays of light, Adorned all directions and intermediate points. 118. Seeing that wonder, with exceedingly joyful mind, Like a wheel-turning monarch who has obtained the wheel-jewel;