the four great pre-indications which the Bodhisat saw when driving to the pleasure garden and which led him to determine to become an ascetic and attain Buddhahood, viz. a sick man, a decrepit old man, a corpse and a monk.
Carter, Charles. A Sinhalese-English dictionary. Colombo: The "Ceylon Observer" Printing Works; London: Probsthain & Co., 1924.