Legends of Rama and its Tope XXIV.

Behind the tope there has been built a Hall of Buddha, of the utmost magnificence and beauty, the beams, pillars, venetianed doors and windows, being all overlaid with gold-leaf.

When Buddha was a Bodhisattva, he gave his eyes also for another man here; and at the spot they have also reared a large tope, adorned with layers of gold and silver plates.

When the king's tope was completed, the little tope of the boy came out from its side on the south, rather more than three cubits in height.

Forthwith he built a tope at the place and a monastery, and left a guard to watch the bowl, making all sorts of contributions.

" Rather more than four hundred paces west from the shadow, when Buddha was at the spot, he shaved off his hair and clipped his nails, and proceeded, along with his disciples, to build a tope seventy or eighty cubits high, to be a model for all future topes; and it is still existing.

At the place where the bhikshuni Utpala was the first to do reverence to Buddha, a tope has now been built.

The king of this country, having obtained one portion of the relics of Buddha's body, returned with it and built over it a tope, named the Râma tope.

Afterwards, the ground all about became overgrown with vegetation, and there was nobody to sprinkle and sweep about the tope; but a herd of elephants came regularly, which brought water with their trunks to water the ground, and various kinds of flowers and incense, which they presented at the tope.

Afterwards, the ground all about became overgrown with vegetation, and there was nobody to sprinkle and sweep about the tope; but a herd of elephants came regularly, which brought water with their trunks to water the ground, and various kinds of flowers and incense, which they presented at the tope.

It was by the side of the "Weapons-laid-down" tope that Buddha, having given up the idea of living longer, said to Ânanda, "In three months from this I will attain to pari-nirvâna"; and king Mâra had so fascinated and stupefied Ânanda, that he was not able to ask Buddha to remain longer in this world.

Three or four li east from this place there is a tope commemorating the following occurrence: A hundred years after the pari-nirvâna of Buddha, some Bhikshus of Vaisâlî went wrong in the matter of the disciplinary rules in ten particulars, and appealed for their justification to what they said were the words of Buddha.

This is supported by a king-post, with poles and lances slanting from it, and is rather more than twenty cubits high, having the shape of a tope.

Over the spot where his body was burned there was built a tope, which is still in existence.

At the place there was subsequently raised a tope, which is still existing.

Over the footprint at the north of the city the king built a large tope, four hundred cubits high, grandly adorned with gold and silver, and finished with a combination of all the precious substances.

By the side of the tope he further built a monastery, called the Abhayagiri, where there are now five thousand monks.

When the cremation was over, they collected and preserved the bones, and proceeded to erect a tope.

These topes are very numerous, at least twenty were visible at one time, and some of great size and in a very good state of preservationmore than one quite as large as the famous tope of Mani Kiyala.

[Illustration: THE SHARK] There are several kinds of these small Sharks, known as Spur-dog, Smooth Hound, Greater-spotted and Lesser-spotted Dog-fish, and Tope.

annual; perennial, biennial, triennial; exotic. timber, forest; wood, woodlands; timberland; hurst^, frith^, holt, weald^, park, chase, greenwood, brake, grove, copse, coppice, bocage^, tope, clump of trees, thicket, spinet, spinney; underwood, brushwood; scrub; boscage, bosk^, ceja [Sp.], chaparal, motte

Now if you tope in form, and treat, 'Tis the sour sauce to the sweet meat, 60 The fine you pay for being great.

By Hildred Tope, illustrated by Doris Stolberg.

Hildred Tope (A); 13Sep73; R558850.

TOPE, the popular name in Buddhist countries for a species of cupola-shaped tumulus surmounted by a finial, in shape like an open parasol, the emblem of Hindu royalty; these parasol finials were often placed one upon the top of the other until a great height was reached; one in Ceylon attains a height of 249 ft., with a diameter of 360 ft.; were used to preserve relics or to commemorate some event.