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panying a bas-relief–that he had already made one of these the subject of a communication to the Academy of Inscriptions (Aug. 1872). M. Ganneau observed that this monument properly belongs to a funerary series characterized by the identity of their epigraphic formulas and the analogy of their style of art. This series includes the monument published by him in the Journal Asiatique and some monuments preserved in the Bombay Museum. M. Ganneau concluded by saying it would be useful that the Society should take means to obtain facsimiles, ‘estampages,' or casts, of the originals preserved at Bombay, the copies given in the Journal of the Bombay Society rendering this de sirable.

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6. If any individual should be habitually sleepy (whether sitting, walking, or standing, etc.), be addicted to company, be of malicious temper, or would not exert himself, that would operate as a cause towards the decline of his prosperity. 7.

We know that this is the third cause which

leads to the decline of prosperity. Please declare the fourth, O Bhagavā What is it that leads to that result P

8. If any individual should not support and maintain either of his parents in their old age, having it in his power to do so, that would cause the decline of his prosperity. 9.

We know that this is the fourth cause which

leads to the decline of prosperity. O Bhagavā please declare the fifth : what is it that brings

TRANSLATIONS BY MR. GOGER1,Y.

about that result P

Mme. A. Grimblot communicates to the Journal

10. If any individual utter a falsehood and

Asiatique” the following translations from the Pāli, given to M. Grimblot by the late Rev. Mr. Gogerly.

thereby impose upon a Samana, a Brähman, or any other description of mendicants, that will operate as a cause towards a decline of his prosperity.

PARABHAWA-SUTTA.

Thus I heard : when Buddha was once residing at Jetavana, the vihāra of Anāthapil (lika, in the vicinity of the city of Sāvatthi, a certain deva pos sessed of pleasing appearance, approached Buddha, after the expiration of the first ten hours of the night (in the middle of the night), illuminating the whole Jetavana with his splendour, and, having worshipped him, stood on one side of him (at a respectful distance) and spoke to him in this stanza :

11.

leads men to decline in prosperity. O Bhagavā' please declare the sixth : what is it that brings about that result P.

12. If any individual possessed of gold in abundance, plenty of kahapanas, and various kinds of viands, should himself alone enjoy his wealth, that would be a cause to the decline of his

prosperity. 13.

1. Who is the person that declines (in prosper

ity) P Lord Buddha of the family of Gotama, we have come to you for the purpose of proposing the question: what is the cause that leads to the de cline of prosperity ?

We know that this is the fifth cause which

We know that this is the sixth cause whieh

will lead men to decline in prosperity. O Bha gavá please declare the seventh : what is it that leads to that result P

14. If any individual disrespect his relations, actuated by too high an opinion of himself, founded

2. The person who advances in prosperity may

on his superiority in birth, wealth, or family, it

be easily known, and so is the person who declines. He who delights (in the performance of the) ten

will operate as a cause towards a decline of his prosperity.

meritorious acts+ will attain to prosperity, while he that entertains an aversion thereto will decline

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15.

We know that this is the seventh cause

leads men to decline in prosperity. O Bhagavā

which leads men to decline in prosperity. O Bha gavā' please declare the eighth : what is it that tends to a a decline of prosperity? 16. If any individual becomes a debauchee, a

please declare the second cause which leads to that

drunkard, or a gambler, and thereby entirely

result.

squanders away his earnings, that will be a cause to the decline of his prosperity. 17. We know that this is the eighth cause which leads to the decline of men's prosperity. O Bha gavá please declare the ninth : what is it that

in prosperity? 3.

We know that this is the first cause which

4. If any individual takes delight men and has an aversion towards the and delights in the doings of wicked will be a cause to bring about his

in wicked righteous, men, that decline in

prosperity. 5. We know that this is the second cause

which leads to the decline of prosperity. O Bha gavá please declare the third cause. What is it

that leads to the decline of prosperity P

brings about the decline of prosperity ? 18. If a man, not pleased with his wife, be con stantly seen in the company of prostitutes and among the wives of others, that is a cause which

would lead to the decline of his prosperity.

• Tome XX, pp. 226-231, + Dasa-puiāa-kiriya. Vide Clough, Dict, vol. II. p. 262, for the different significations of this word.