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panying a bas-relief-that he had already made one 6. If any individual should be habitually sleepy of these the subject of a communication to the (whether sitting, walking, or standing, etc.), be Academy of Inscriptions (Aug. 1872). M. Ganneau addicted to company, be of malicious temper, or observed that this monument properly belongs to would not exert himself, that would operate as a a funerary series characterized by the identity of cause towards the decline of his prosperity. their epigraphic formulas and the analogy of their 7. We know that this is the third cause which style of art. This series includes the monument leads to the decline of prosperity. Please declare published by him in the Journal Asiatique and some the fourth, 0 Bhagava! What is it that leads to monuments preserved in the Bombay Museum. that result ?
M. Ganneau concluded by saying it would be 1 8. If any individual should not support and useful that the Society should take means to obtain maintain either of his parents in their old age, facsimiles, estampages,' or casts, of the originals having it in his power to do so, that would cause preserved at Bombay, the copies given in the the decline of his prosperity. Journal of the Bombay Society rendering this de- 9. We know that this is the fourth cause which sirable.
leads to the decline of prosperity. O Bhagava!
please declare the fifth : what is it that brings TRANSLATIONS BY MR. GOGERLY. about that result ? Mme. A. Grimblot communicates to the Journal 10. If any individual utter a falsehood and Asiatique the following translations from the PAli, thereby impose upon a Samana, a Brahman, or any given to M. Grimblot by the late Rev. Mr. Gogerly.
other description of mendicants, that will operate PARABHAVA-SUTTA.
As a cause towards a decline of his prosperity. Thas I heard: when Buddha was once residing 11. We know that this is the fifth cause which at Jetavana, the vihárs of Anathapindika, in the leads men to decline in prosperity. O Bhagava! vicinity of the city of Savatthi, a certain deva pos- please declare the sixth : what is it that brings Bessed of pleasing appearance, approached Buddha,
about that result ? after the expiration of the first ten hours of the 12. If any individual possessed of gold in night in the middle of the night), illuminating abundance, plenty of kahapanas, and various the whole Jetavana with his splendour, and, having kinds of viands, should himself alone enjoy his worshipped him, stood on one side of him (at a wealth, that would be a cause to the decline of his respectful distance) and spoke to him in this prosperity. stanze :
13. We know that this is the sixth cause which 1. Who is the person that declines in prosper- will lead men to decline in prosperity. O Bhaity)P Lord Buddha of the family of Gotams, we gava! please declare the seventh : what is it that have come to you for the purpose of proposing the leads to that result P question : what is the cause that leads to the de- 14. If any individual disrespect his relations, cline of prosperity P
actuated by too high an opinion of himself, founded 2. The person who advances in prosperity may on his superiority in birth, wealth, or family, it be essily known, and so is the person who declines. will operate as & cause towards a decline of his He who delights (in the performance of the) ten prosperity. meritorious actat will attain to prosperity, while 15. We know that this is the seventh cause he that entertains an aversion thereto will decline which leads men to decline in prosperity. O Bhain prosperity?
gava! please declare the eighth : what is it that 3. We know that this is the first cause which
tends to a decline of prosperity ? leads men to decline in prosperity. O Bhagava!
16. If any individual becomes a debauchee, please declare the second cause which leads to that drunkard, or a gambler, and thereby entirely result.
squanders sway his earnings, that will be a cause 4. If any individual takes delight in wicked
to the decline of his prosperity. men and has an aversion towards the righteous. 17. We know that this is the eighth cause which and delights in the doings of wicked men, that leads to the decline of men's prosperity. O Bhawill be a cause to bring about his decline in gava I please declare the ninth : what is it that prosperity.
brings about the decline of prosperity P 5. We know that this is the second cause 18. If a man, not pleased with his wife, be conwhich leads to the decline of prosperity. O Bha- stantly seen in the company of prostitutes and gavs ! please declare the third cause. What is it Among the wives of others, that is a canse which that leads to the decline of prosperity P
would lead to the decline of his prosperity. *Tome XX. pp. 226-881. Daan-profifia kiriye. Vido Clough, Dict, vol. II. p. 862, for the different significations of this word,
