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him and said " I intend, Sir, on being permitted by you to abide observing the Great Standard of one night in the cemetary of Mabākāla. If it please you, Beloved of Gods, do not put a stop.”
So Friar Gayasukumāla, on being permitted by the saint Aritthaņemi praised and worshipped him and started out from the Sahasambavana park from the presence of the saint Aritthaņemi, and went to the cemetary of Mahakāla, looked for clean spot and abo. de observing the Great Standard of one night, his body bent a little forward [ until ] his two feet placed together.
Now Brahmana Somila went towards the east, outside the city of Baravai for sacrificial faggots, gathered samidh-fuels, Darbha -grass and pluckd-up leaves; then he retur. ned thence. Passing not very near or far from the cemetary of Mahakāla, at the time of evening twilight when very few men were about, he saw Friar Gayasukumala. Then he remembered his spite, became quickly enraged, angry, raging, hot and burning to the quick and said thus » This is Prince Gayasukumala, desirous of the undesirable (until].
