[197] Instead of asmâd I read asmân.
[198] Cp. Story VII, stanzas 20-26.
[199] Viz. indulging in anger and cursing that king. The curse of a Rishi, who has obtained supernatural power by his penance, is a dreadful weapon.
[200] In other words, one has to strive for final extinction.
[201] The Brahmaloka or Brahma-world is in Buddhist cosmology the world superior to the region of sensuality, the kâmadhâtu (see Burnouf, Introduction, &c., p. 604) or kâmâvakara (see Hardy, Manual, pp. 3, 261). Cp. Kern, Geschiedenis van het Buddhisme, I, pp. 290, 291. Cp. Story XXX, stanza 21, where we have this series of happiness: 1. royalty on earth, 2. heavenly bliss, 3. Brahma's world, 4. final extinction (Nirvána).
[202] Love, viz. sensual love and covetousness, and hatred (with anger) are the two great divisions of vyasanâni (vices, evil habits), not only with Buddhists. See, for instance, Manu VII, 45 foll.
[203] The arghya is the name of a worshipful offering of water to a worthy guest, given with the other ceremonial marks of hospitality: vishtara, padya, madhuparka.
[204] The inhabitants of Brahma's world are called Brahmans.
[205] The others are inference and analogy; for it is unlikely that the Brahman would think of persuading a disbeliever by means of the fourth mode of proof, revelation.
[206] In other words, in the state of the fetus.