The Discourse about the Great Emancipation

The Sixth Chapter for Recitation
their arms, falling down (as though) cut down, rolling backwards and
forwards as though with their feet cut off, they were crying: “Too
quickly the Gracious One has attained Final Emancipation, too quickly
the Fortunate One has attained Final Emancipation, too quickly the
Visionary in the world has disappeared!”
Then the Mallas from Kusinārā ordered (their) men, (saying): “Now,
friends, gather together perfume and flowers, and all the musicians in
Kusinārā.”
Then the Mallas of Kusinārā, having taken perfumes and garlands, and
all the musicians, and five-hundred pairs of clothes, approached the
Mallas' Sal Wood at Upavattana, and the Gracious One's body, after
approaching the Gracious One's body, through honouring, respecting,
revering, and worshipping (the body), with dance, song, music,
garlands, and perfumes, and making cloth canopies, and preparing
circular pavillions, they made the day pass.
Then this occurred to the Mallas of Kusinārā: “Today it is too late to
burn the Gracious One's body, tomorrow we will burn the Gracious
One's body.”
Then the Mallas of Kusinārā, through honouring, respecting, revering,
and worshipping the Gracious One's body, with dance, song, music,
garlands, and perfumes, and making cloth canopies, and preparing
circular pavillions, they made the second day pass, they made the third
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