Heavenly, twice-born birds with piercing vision— swoop down to the wood from the sky; their name is ‘Rainbow Phoenix’. But the dragon kings remained fearless, for the Buddha kept them safe from the phoenixes. Inviting each other with gentle words, the dragons and phoenixes <j>took the Buddha as refuge. and those from Vesālī with those from Takkasilā. The Kambalas and Assataras came and those from Payāga with their kin.