The Discourse about the Great Emancipation

The Fifth Chapter for Recitation
[38: The Mallas Worship the Gracious One]
“Go, Ānanda, and after entering into Kusinārā, announce to the
Mallas: ‘Today, Vāseṭṭhas, 160 in the last watch of the night, will be the
Realised One's attainment of Final Emancipation, come along,
Vāseṭṭhas, come along, Vāseṭṭhas, do not regret it afterwards
(thinking): “In the area of our village, was the Realised One's
attainment of Final Emancipation, and we did not, in the last watch of
the night, get to see the Realised One”’.”
“Very well, reverend Sir,” said venerable Ānanda, and after replying
to the Gracious One, dressing, and taking his robes and bowl, he
entered Kusinārā with a companion.
Now at that time the Mallas from Kusinārā were assembled in the
Council Hall having some business or other. Then venerable Ānanda
went to where the Mallas from Kusinārā were assembled in the
Council Hall, and after approaching he said this to the Mallas: “Today,
Vāseṭṭhas, in the last watch of the night, will be the Realised One's
attainment of Final Emancipation, come along, Vāseṭṭhas, come along,
Vāseṭṭhas, do not regret it afterwards (thinking): ‘In the area of our
village, was the Realised One's attainment of Final Emancipation, and
we did not, in the last watch of the night, get to see the Realised One.’
”
160 This is their clan name.
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