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King Seniya; the queen Chellana a description]. Here in Rayagiha dwelt a garland-maker named Ajjunaya (rich [ until] unsurpassed). This garland-maker Ajjunaya had a wife named Bandhumai [ tender etc. ]. This garland-maker Ajjunaya had one big flower-garden here outside the city of Rayagiha. (The garden was) black [ until] like a mass of clouds, blossoming with the flowers of five kinds...pleasing [4]. Not very far from this flower-garden, here, this garland-maker Ajjunaya had a shrine of Jakkha Moggarapani which had devolved upon him from a line of many ancesters of the family, from grand-father great-grandfather, great-great-grand-father. Ancient, divine, true, [etc.] just like Punnabhadda. There the idol of Moggarapani stood having held the iron mace made of thousand palas. Then that garland-maker Ajjunaya was the devotee of Jakkha Moggarapāni from the very childhood. Every morning,
he took baskets, went out of the city of Rayagiha, arrived at the flower-garden,. made the collection of flowers. Then he took the foremost and best flowers, appro
