The Discourse about the Great Emancipation

The Fifth Chapter for Recitation
They will worshipfully (dispose of) the Realised One's body.” 150
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“How should we act, reverend Sir, in regard to the Realised One's
body?”
“As you act in regard to the Universal Monarch's body, so you should
act in regard to the Realised One's body.”
“But how do they act, reverend Sir, in regard to the Universal
Monarch's body?”
“They wrap the Universal Monarch's body, Ānanda, with clean cloth,
and after wrapping with clean cloth, they wrap with carded cotton, and
after wrapping with carded cotton, they wrap with clean cloth, by this
means after wrapping the Universal Monarch's body with five-hundred
pairs (of cloth and cotton), enclosing it in an oil tub made of
150 This seems to record a different tradition to the one just below, which is
presumably inserted here to give authority for the cremation procedure that
follows later.
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