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resulted from that mighty giving. And there was never another giving, Oking, which had such power as that generosity of the great king Vessantara.
40. 'And just, О king, as there are many gems of value found in the earth--the sapphire, and the great sapphire, and the wish-conferring gem, and the cat's eye, and the flax gem', and the Acacia gem?, and the entrancing gem, and the favourite of the sun 3, and the favourite of the moon", and the crystal, and the kaggopakkamaka, and the topaz, and the ruby, and the Masâra stone 6_but the glorious gem of the king of kings is acknowledged to be the chief of all these and surpassing all, for the sheen of that jewel, O king, spreads round about for a league on every side 7—just so, O king, of all the gifts that
Umma-puppha; rendered diya-mendiri-pushpa in the Simhalese. Clough gives diyameneri as a plant commelina cucullata.'
: Sirîsa-puppha; rendered mârâ-pushpa in the Simhalese, mârâ being the seed of the 'adenanthera pavonia.'
Suriya-kanto, which the Simhalese merely repeats. • Kanda-kanta; and so also in the Simhalese. These are mythic gems, supposed to be formed out of the rays of the sun and moon respectively, and visible only when they shine.
• The Simhalese has kaggopakramaya, which is not in Clough.
. Masara-galla, which the Simhalese renders by masaragalya, which Böhtlingk-Roth think is sapphire or smaragd, and Clough renders emerald,' and the commentary on the Abhidhâna Padipikâ, quoted by Childers, says is a stone produced in the hill of Masara (otherwise unknown).
On similar lists of gems elsewhere see the Kullavagga IX, 1, 3, and my note at pp. 249, 250 of the 'Buddhist Suttas' (vol. xi of the Sacred Books of the East ').
? So also in the Mahâ-Sudassana Sutta I, 32, translated in the 'Buddhist Suttas,' p. 256. Compare above, p. 35 of the text.
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