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shall not appear in any of the golden goods that were offered.’ All this occurred by the determination-power of all
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that were offered on that day shall not wither till the end of Buddha Gotama’s
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the relic-chamber three times, entered to it from the east, and when laid the relic-casket on a silver couch one ‘‘koṭi’’ worth, that was arranged in the north side. An image of the Buddha was then, according to the Buddha’s determination, created in the lion’s reclining posture (‘‘sīhaseyya’’), and
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all the relics were enshrined within that image. When the enshrining of the relics in the Great Stūpa
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offers his invisible umbrella of sovereignty, with the king
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chooses not to retrieve Buddha relics in the possession of Nagas at
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