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Then he created a shower of ashes. Burning a shes dropped from the sky, but as they reached the Buddha's feet, they changed into powder of sandalrood.
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Then he started a shower of dust. Dark, blazing and very fine particles of dust started pouring from the sky, but it turned into heavenly flowers on the Buddha's feet.
There was a shower of mud. Grey and boiling mud trickled from the sky, but it fell as a divine pa ste at the Buddha's feet.
There emerged a pitchy darkness from all around, but before it could engulf the Buddha, it cleared away as does the night at sunshine.
10. When Māra failed to make the Buddha flee by his
storm, rain, pebbles, weapons, charcoal, ashes, dust, mud and darkness, he thundered at his stalwarts,
"'Why stand ye cowards inactive ? Take this young fellow, beat him and put him to his heels."
He himself did not remain idle. Seated on his elephant Girime khala, with a wheel in his hand, he rushed at the Buddha and shouted,
"Ye Siddhartha ! You get out from this seat. It has not been meant for thee; it is mine."
The Buddha reacted,
"Māra ! You have neither fulfilled the ten paramitās, nor sub-parāmitás, nor the supreme paramitās. You have not even made the five great renunciations, nor done anything either for the good of the clan nor for that of humanity. You have not even acquired knowledge. So, how can this seat be for thee; it is mine."
Mára could no longer restrain his fury. He hurled his wheel at the Buddha. The Buddha at once remembered
