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 234 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. [August, 1873 panying a bas-relief,—that he had already made one of these the subject of a communication to the Academy of Inscriptions (Aug. 1872). M. Ganneau observed that this monument properly belongs to a funerary series characterized by the identity of their epigraphic formulas and the analogy of their style of art. This series includes the monument published by him in the Journal Asiatique and some monuments preserved in the Bombay Museum. M. Ganneau concluded by saying it would be useful that the Society should take means to obtain facsimiles, * estampages,’ or casts, of the originals preserved at Bombay, the copies given in the Journal of the Bombay Society rendering this de¬ sirable. » TRANSLATIONS BY MR. GOGERLY. Mme. A. Grimblot communicates to the Journal Asiaiique* the following translations from the P&li, given to M. Grimblot by the late Rev. Mr. Gogerly. PARABHAV A-8UTT A. Thus I heard : when Buddha was once residing at Jetavana, the vih&ra of An&thapindika, in the vicinity of the city of Savatthi, a certain deva pos¬ sessed of pleasing appearance, approached Buddha, after the expiration of the first ten hours of the night (in the middle of the night), illuminating the whole Jetavana with his splendour, and, having worshipped him, stood on one side of him (at a respectful distance) and spoke to him in this stanza: 1. Who is the person that declines (in prosper¬ ity) ? Lord Buddha of the family of Gotama, we have come to you for the purpose of proposing the question: what is the cause that leads to the de¬ cline of prosperity ? 2. The person who advances in prosperity may be easily known, and so is the person who declines. He who delights (in the performance of the) ten meritorious actsf will attain to prosperity, while he that entertains an aversion thereto will decline in prosperity P 3. We know that this is the first cause which leads men to decline in prosperity. 0 BhagavA! please declare the second cause which leads to that result. 4. If any individual takes delight in wicked men and has an aversion towards the righteous, and delights in the doings of wicked men, that will be a cause to bring about his decline in prosperity. 5. We know that this is the second cause which leads to the decline of prosperity. 0 Bha- gav& ! please declare the third cause. What is it that leads to the decline of prosperity P 6. If any individual should be habitually sleepy (whether sitting, walking, or standing, etc.), be addicted to company, be of malicious temper, or would not exert himself, that would operate as a cause towards the decline of his prosperity. 7. We know that this is the third cause which leads to the decline of prosperity. Please declare the fourth, 0 Bhagav&! What is it that leads to that result P 8. If any individual should not support and maintain either of his parents in their old age, having it in his power to do so, that would cause the decline of his prosperity. 9. We know that this is the fourth cause which leads to the decline of prosperity. O Bhagav& ! please declare tho fifth: what is it that brings about that result ? 10. If any individual utter a falsehood and thereby impose upon a Samana, a Br&hman, or any other description of mendicants, that will operate as a cause towards a decline of his prosperity. 11. We know that this is the fifth cause which leads men to decline in prosperity. O BhagavUt! please declare the sixth: what is it that brings about that result P 12. If any individual possessed of gold in abundance, plenty of kahapanas, and various kinds of viands, should himself alone enjoy his wealth, that would be a cause to the decline of his prosperity. 13. We know that this is the sixth cause which will lead men to decline in prosperity. 0 Bha- gav&! please declare the seventh: what is it that leads to that result P 14. If any individual disrespect his relations, actuated by too high an opinion of himself, founded on his superiority in birth, wealth, or family, it will operate as a cause towards a decline of his prosperity. 15. We know that this is the seventh cause which leads men to decline in prosperity. 0 Bha- gav&! please declare the eighth; what is it that tends to a a decline of prosperity P 16. If any individual becomes a debauchee, a drunkard, or a gambler, and thereby entirely squanders away his earnings, that will be a cause to the decline of his prosperity. 17. We know that this is the eighth cause whiob leads to the decline of men’s prosperity, O Bha- gav&! please declare the ninth: what is it that brings about the decline of prosperity P 18. If a man, not pleased with his wife, be con¬ stantly seen in the company of prostitutes and among the wives of others, that is a cause which would lead to the decline of his prosperity.
 * Tome XX. pp. 226-231. f Dasa-puima-kiriya. Vide Clough, Diet, vol, IJ. p, 262, for the different significations of this word.