Modern Review June 1922

They then met together in their council hall to devise some means of honouring the earthly remains of the Lord in a suitable manner and carried it with mirth and music to the shrine of the Mallas called the Makuta-badhana to the east of their city and they treated the remains of the Tathlgata as they would treat the remains of a king of kings Cakravarti Riji ).7 When at last the cremtion was [...] We are told in the Sabhiparva of the Niahabhirata that the second Pandava Bhimasena on his expedition conquered the chief of the Mallas besides the country of Gopilakaksa and the northern Kosala terrtories." Amongst the peoples inhabiting the different countries of India the -13hismparva mentions the Mallas along with such East Indian peoples as the Angas the Vangas the Kalingas and o [...] Rhys Davids expresses the opinion Vitt the territory of the Mallas of Kusinara And PIO "if we may trust the Chinese Pilgrims was on the mountain slopes to the '.eiSt of the Slkya land and to the north of the Vajjian confederation. [...] the capital of the Licchavis passed the threhold of Mahili a Licrhavi with his wife Manila who wanted to go and bathe and drink the water of the tank %%here the families of the kings used to get water for the ceremonial sprinkling. [...] On account of realisinthe jhAnas together with the 5vatana! and the Nirvana and thwarting the.!njoyment and sensual pleasure he was successful in becoming foremost in the Devhrahma and the MAra worlds amongst the samanas and the Bralimanas." Roga the Mallian asked Ananda whether the Buddha would accept poherbs and meal from his hands.