[232]. Dhammapada, 239; ibid. vol. x. p. 1.
[233]. Akankheya Sutta; Sacred Books of the East, vol. xi. p. 210.
[234]. If the legends are to be followed, he believed in the miraculous power which resulted from it (see Mahâparanibhâna Sutta, i. 33, and iii. 22; also Mahavagga, i. 20. 24), but he condemned the exercise of that power for self-glorification or for paltry gain (Kullavagga, v. 8. 2; also vii. 1, 2, 3; Sacred Books of the East, vols. xi. xii. xiii.).
[235]. See Gough, Philosophy of the Upanishads, pp. 267, 268.
[236]. Oldenberg, Buddha, etc., p. 314.
[237]. Sir Monier Williams, Buddhism, p. 35.
[238]. Saint-Hilaire, Le Bouddha, etc., p. 162.
[239]. Mr. Alabaster, Wheel of the Law, preface, p. xvi.
[240]. Eitel, Lectures on Buddhism, pp. 59-70; Saint-Hilaire, Le Bouddha, p. 156.
[241]. Jackson’s Bampton Lectures, The Doctrine of Retribution, p. 284; Caird’s Philosophy of Religion, Croall Lectures, pp. 259 seq.