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one hundred raised seats[1] and one hundred Nōkesa,[2] and held a Ninwo Hanya[3] meeting.
Moreover, the Prince Imperial for the first time made a clepsydra,[4] by which he caused the people to know the hours.
Clepsydra.
Again, Abe no Hikida no Omi presented to the Empress more than fifty savages.[5]
Again, a Mount Sumi was built near the pond of Iso no Kami, as high as a pagoda. On this occasion forty-seven men of Su-shēn were entertained.
- ↑ A sort of square dais from which the priests delivered their lectures.
- ↑ A kind of Buddhist priestly garment.
- ↑ Hanya is the Sanskrit Pradjña, defined by Eitel as the "highest of the six Pâramita (cardinal virtues), intelligence, the principal means of attaining to Nirvâna." The meeting was to hear the reading of the Ninwō Hanya Sutra. Ninwō means "benevolent king."
- ↑ Vide Florenz for particulars as to clepsydra.
- ↑ No doubt Ainos or Yemishi are meant.
