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Let good happen! The time of the Buddhist Religion had already become the past for 2,393 years on was Saturday, the 6th waxing-moon day of the month of Phagguṇa. On the date indicated, at the time of around 5 mong in the afternoon, His Majesty the Great Protector, the Saintly Saviour, the Great Pious King of Kings, the Buddhist Lord Over All Heads, who was ailing, began to think of the manners he had been observing when addressing and speaking on whatever matter with any patriarch, dignitary, Pali scholar, or inferior bhikshu since he could remember till now, for he worried that he might have committed a mistake or been careless in his words, which resulted in a lack of respect, or might have stated what should not be stated to a congregation of priests in this Religion. In addition,