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who observed a vow of celibacy. The same story is now told as in the Amba-p-upata, A.-ridumam, etc. (see above). She caused herself to be reborn as a mango in the Pân liyan king's orchard, while 1000 handmaids were born as mangoes around her Seeing sparks issue from her mango, the king ordered it to be cut or shot down, but in vain. Then Säkra came in the disguise of an old man, at whom the people jeered. He shot an arrow at the mango, cut its stalk, and caught it as it fell ; a drop of the sap spurted from the stalk, struck the king's third eye, and blinded it. The mango was at once sent down the river in a golden boat. The latter was found by king Mânàyuru and his queen while bathing, and they both claimed it as their own. Finding the mango, they put it into a jar. Säkra then nppeared to them and asked for a mango for his wife; they then looked into the jar, and found a little girl, who grew up and was married to Palanga. The Pandiniluva relates that a Påncliyan queen when with child dreamed that a water-lily with three petals was given to her, and accordingly she gave birth to a three-eyed prince, named Devappai, for whom Viskam built a palace with 8 portals. The Patasé narrates that Devappåndi resolved to make a great tank. His people, though they laboured sorely, were unable to finish it. He therefore commanded the kings of the Eighteen Lands to send labourers to help him. All the kings assembled, except the king of Soli. To him an insulting message was sent, whereupon he tortured the messenger and made him drink 'human urine mixed with the ashes of the Påndiyan's letter." The Påndiyan with the other kings then attacked Soli. The Soliyan king blew the jaya-saka ("victory-conch") in appeal to Sakra, who made rain to fall for seven days. The invading army was washed away, and the Paodiyan fled home in ignominy. In revenge the Påndiyan caused the regular rains to cease and drought to prevail over Soli for 7 years and 6 months. The Amba-pattini-upata begins with Viskam's creation of the orchard in the Pandiyan land. Buddha with 300 monks came to it, and Viskam offered him a mango, of which Buddha gave the seed to the Maha-thera Ananda, who planted it, and it speedily put forth 7 leaflets. The three-eyed Pån liyan king gathered together 100 kings and forced them to dig a tank. Their laments heated the throne of Säkra, who went to Pattini at the Andun-giri. She turned the rock into mud, grew rice in it, made fire out of water, and with it cooked for him the rice, all in 31 payas. Säkra took the rice, and asked her to put out the king's third eye. She refused, før in her absence mankind would have greatly suffered; but at length she consented, and was born in a goden mango Fruit, while 1000 attendants were born in other mangoes, in the king's orchard. When the king ordered her mango to be plucked, flame issued from it. The story then proceeds in nearly the same way as in the Pandi-neta-mälu-upata. Mandhatu Raja used a branch of the same mango-tree for the amba-yaga ritual. At the end of the stalk of its leaf Vişnı resided, in the middle of the leaf Sarasvati, at the tip of the leaf Laksmi. By that rite, with recital of the 8 Lavaca-charms, Oddisa and Mandhatu exorcised evils. The P-pätima tells of the birth of P. as the daughter of the Situ Bolanda and queen Tirima-kulangana of Mani-mêgha-nuvara. When she was 7 years of age, and was going with 1000 maidens to bathe, she heard that a merchant of Kalinga was giving in alms robes for Buddhist friars. At that time the citizens of Maņi-mêgha-nuvara were giving aims to 1000 Brahmans and to Kakusanda Buddha and his Rahats. P. therefore gave away 1000 kathina robes and 3000 ordinary robes, and her maidens brought a honey-mango, which she planted; it immediately grew and bore ripe fruit, which she offered to Kakusanda and his Rahats. She then formed the wish that by the merit of this gift of the mango she might be reborn in a golden mango, overcome a great king, and become mightier than gods and
