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Rh in existence. Several li to the north-east of the city there is a royal field, where the heir-apparent sat under a tree and watched men ploughing. Fifty li to the cast there is a royal garden, called Lun-min, where the Queen, entering the pool, bathed herself, and coming out twenty paces on the north side of the pool, raised her hands to grasp the branch of a tree, and facing the east brought forth the heir-apparent. When the Prince was born he walked seven steps, and two dragon-kings washed his body. At the place where he was washed a well has been made, and also at the above-mentioned bathing pool, from which the priests are now accustomed to get their drinking-water. All Buddhas have four places everlastingly fixed. (1). Where they attain per-