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Chanda ka had no other alternative but to obey. He handed over his ornaments and the horse to Chanda ka. The Bodhi-sattva thought,
'The (long) hairs of mine do not make me appear like a sramaņa. For cutting the hairs of the Bodhi-sattva, no instrument is good enough except a sword. Sol should apply the sword.'
He held the sword in his right hand and the bunch of hairs with the peacock plume in his left hand and cut them. Only very short hairs as big as two fingers (1 inch) remained, which, turning from the right, stuck to his head. Till the last day of his life, this remained the size of his hairs. And the same was the size of his moustache and beard. Henceforth, he needed no more hair cut.
He hurled the bunch of hairs in the sky thinking that if he was destined to be a Buddha, they should remain in the sky; otherwise, they should come down. That bunch attained a height of a yojana in the sky and remained there. Sakra, the Indra of the gods, saw them with his divine vision. He held them in a pot made of gems, and erected with them the Cudāmaņi-caitya in the Traya strimóa heaven.
The Bodhi-sattva thought again,
'These clothes made at Kasi are of no good for a monk.'
Just then, Mahābrahmā, a contemporary of KasyapBuddha, thought,
'My friend has renounced his home to-day. I must provide him with all the things he would need as a monk.'
At once, he took three robes, a pot, a razor, a needle, a belt and a piece of cloth to filter water - in all eight things, and gave them to the Bodhi-sattva. The Bodhi-sattva put on the excellent dress and accepted the other objects used by an Arhat, and dismissed Chanda ka saying,
"Chanda ka! Console my parents on my behalf."
