[292]. Mahavagga, i. 31. 4.
[293]. Introduction to Dhammapada, Sacred Books of the East, vol. x. p. xliv: a long list quoted from the Northern Scripture by Dr. Edkins in Chinese Buddhism.
[294]. The question was thrice put, “Are ye pure?” Mahavagga, ii. 1-36.
[295]. See for a specimen the Kullavaga, v. 21; Sacred Books of the East, vol. xx.
[296]. Bishop of Colombo, in Nineteenth Century, July 1888.
[297]. Mahavagga, iv. 1. 18; Sacred Books of the East, vol. xiii.
[298]. Weber, Indische Studien, x. 118; Metrical translations by Dr. John Muir, p. 250, where Professor Eggeling is quoted.
[299]. Mahâ-pagâpati the Gotami, his aunt and nurse (Kullavaga, x. 1) whose entreaty, through Ananda, led him to found the Order of Bikkhuni, seems more than a name. Visâkhâ, “the rich and bountiful,” is another type of votary (Mahavagga, viii. 15).
[300]. Buddhist Jataka Stories, translated by Rhys Davids, pp. 87, 90; Bigandet, Life of Gaudama, old ed., pp. 156, 168.
[301]. Dhammapada, 284; Sacred Books of the East, vol. x.