Mahāpaṭṭhāna session or Paccaya 24 defines causes and factors of the Dhamma or emotions. For example, if we meritoriously behave, we will be reborn in heaven. If we sinfully behave, we will be reborn in hell. The fact is compared to a deeply rooted Bodhi tree that never falls down by storm. Emotions causing affection, anger, and delusion shake our minds. This is compared to the blind who depends on a rail for a walk or to a cowman who must remember the number and the characters of his cows in order to take care of them.
Colophon:
[The writing of this manuscript] was completed in early morning in BE 2473, CS 1292, a kot sanga year, on the fourth waning-moon day of the first [lunar] month, the seventh day of the week. Monk Mahāvaṃsa wrote this manuscript by himself. May the merit derived from writing the manuscript be transferred to my father named Tha who passed away.
Other notes:
This date corresponds with Saturday, 11 August 1930.