Then the man said, "To look if it is false, string a flower garland
and give me it."
Afterwards the woman having strung a flower garland, gave it. The man,
taking the flower garland, threw it on the [celestial] carriage [in
the air]. Then the flower garland was arranged on the carriage. Having
seen it, that woman, covering her face, died.
Having died there, the woman having been [re]-born in the divine world,
when she was coming again to the house the man had not yet died. On
account of it the woman said, "Why have you not died yet? I, having
died, and gone, and been [re]-born in the divine world,--is it not
so?--came here. Come, and go with me," she said.
Tom-tom Beater. North-western Province.
The account of the dying man's words and the flower garland which
hung on the celestial carriage is borrowed from Mah. I., p. 226
(Dr. Geiger's translation). When six gods invited the dying King
Duttha-Gamani to join them on their celestial cars and proceed to
their heavenly world, he motioned to them to wait while sacred
verses were being chanted, and explained to the monks what his
gesture signified. As it was thought that his mind was affected, he
ordered flower garlands to be thrown into the air, and these arranged
themselves on the cars, which were invisible to all but the King.