The Discourse about the Great Emancipation

The Sixth Chapter for Recitation
Then the Moriyā of Pepper Wood heard: “The Gracious One, it seems,
has attained Final Emancipation in Kusinārā.” Then the Moriyā of
Pepper Wood sent a message to the Mallas of Kusinārā, (saying): “The
Gracious One was a Noble, and we also are Nobles, we are worthy of a
share of the Gracious One's bodily relics, we will make a Shrine and
hold a festival for the bodily relics.”
“There are no more portions of the Gracious One's relics, (instead)
take the ashes from the Gracious One's body.” Therefore they took
away the ashes.
Then the Magadhan King Ajātasattu, the son of Lady Wisdom, made a
Shrine for the Gracious One's bodily relics at Rājagaha and held a
festival. 199
The Licchavīs from Vesālī made a Shrine for the Gracious One's
bodily relics at Vesālī and held a festival.
The Sakyas from Kapilavatthu made a Shrine for the Gracious One's
bodily relics at Kapilavatthu and held a festival.
put it into his turban, but Sakka then stole it and enshrined it in the
Cūḷāmaṇi shrine in Tāvatiṁsa Heaven. Realising that it had gone Doṇa
then asked for the urn!
199 Comm: Kusinārato yāva Rājagahaṁ pañcavīsati yojanāni…evaṁ dhātuyo
gahetvā āgacchantānaṁ sattavassānisatta māsāni sattadivasāni vītivattāni;
from Kusināra to Rājagaha is 25 leagues…while the relics were being
brought, 7 years, 7 months, and 7 days passed by.
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