This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1832 Excerpt: ... supremacy) ordered Vishnu to destroy; which that deity did, except one, by calling to his aid Vige Kumareia, the lion hero, and founder, in union with a female devil, of the early race of Singhalese monarchs. The story is curious, but would occupy too much space for this work. It will be found at length in M. ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1832 Excerpt: ... supremacy) ordered Vishnu to destroy; which that deity did, except one, by calling to his aid Vige Kumareia, the lion hero, and founder, in union with a female devil, of the early race of Singhalese monarchs. The story is curious, but would occupy too much space for this work. It will be found at length in M. Joinville's Treatise on the Religion and Manners of the People of Ceylon, in the seventh volume of the Asiatic Researches. Gaudama has also enjoined, as a necessary qualification to obtain Nivani, the performance of dana, or the bestowing of alms; and of bavana, which (according to Dr. F. Buchanan) consists in pronouncing three words: aneizzo, doccha, and anatta. The first is to shew that he recollects that life is subject to vicissitudes; the second, that man is thereby liable to misfortune; and the third, that exemption from either does not depend upon himself. The Buddhas do not, like the Brahmans, respect fire; and the rahans (or priests) never kindle one, lest they should thereby destroy the life of an animal. They consequently do not cook any food; though they eat that which has possessed life, provided it be ready dressed; such, at least, appears to be the case in Ava, but in some places it is said to be different. They commonly subsist on provisions given as alms; to collect which they issue every morning from their convents, as early as it is sufficiently light for them to distinguish the veins on their hands. They do not beg, but they stop before every house in a street. If food be given to them, they put it into their sabeit or baskets, and pass on without returning thanks: if none be given, they go on to the next house in silence. They are clothed in a large yellow mantle, folded becomingly round them, passing over the left shoulder and le...
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