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, and Sacred Books of the East, vol. xx, Vinaya Texts, pp. 370-385.

(5) So in the text, evidently for pari-nirvâna.

(6) Instead of “high” seats, the Chinese texts have “vacant.” The character for “prepared” denotes “spread;”—they were carpeted; perhaps, both cushioned and carpeted, being rugs spread on the ground, raised higher than the other places for seats.

(7) Did they not contrive to let him in, with some cachinnation, even in so august an assembly, that so important a member should have been shut out?

(8) “The life of this body” would, I think, fairly express the idea of the bhikshu.

(9) See the account of Buddha’s preaching in