Note 264 — GLORY BE TO THE BLESSED, THE HOLY, THE ALL-WISE ONE.

I am not sure that I have understood rightly the meaning of vassagga,—a word of doubtful derivation, which has only been found in this passage. Possibly we should translate: “The turn for the better rice has come to the monk whose seniority dates from such and such a year, and the turn for the inferior kind to the monk whose seniority dates from such and such a year.”