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THE CHILD MIYAPUTTA diseases and sicknesses, they returned wearied, fatigued and exhausted in the direction from which they had appeared.
29. Then that Ekkái, the district-officer, being overpowered by the sixteen diseases and sicknesses indulged in his royalty and kingdom. Longing and praying for kingship he attained to the full age of two hundred and fifty years', agonised by the intolerable force of his agonies, and dying at the time of death was born as Neraiya on this Rayanappabhá earth among the Neraiya the highest period of whose punishment is a Ságarovama.
30. Afterwards returning from thence, he alighted as son into Queen Miya's womb in this very city of Miyaggáma.
Then in Queen Miya's body arose a pain, fery (down to) burning. Since the time when the child Miyáputta got into Queen Miya's womb as embryo, Queen Miyá became undesirable, unpleasing and unwelcome to Vijaya, the Khattiya.
31. Then once upon a time, in the first part of the latter half of the night", there occurred to Queen
1. Lit. two and a half centuries (The 'a century.) 2. Vido Iloernle's note 161 in his tr. of Uvás.
3. The palioramu, Skt. palyopama, is a period mousured by the time in which a vast well, one hundred Yojanas every way, filled with minute bits of hair so closely packed that a river might be hurried over them without penetrating the interstices could be emptied at the rate of one hair in a century. This repeated ten kotis of kotis of times (i.e. 1,000,000,000,000,000) is a Ságarovama. Stevenson, however, reverses this explanation. Hoernle n. 111. 4. é... at mid-night hour.
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