[237] The king had those sacraments performed by his purohita, the king's constant and customary representative in sacrificial and ceremonial matters.
[238] It is plain that the image of the crescent moon is present to the author's mind.
[239] This sentence is expressed in a similar way in a sloka, recurring several times in Divyâvadâna (ed. Cowell, p. 27; 100; 486):
sarve kshayântâ nikayâh patanântâh samukkhrayâh
samyogâ viprayogântâ maranântam ka gîvitam.
Cp. also supra, Story VI, stanza 7.
[240] In the Pâli redaction these demons are specified by the names of yakkhâ, pisâkâ, and petâ (= Sans, pretâh), different classes of goblins.
[241] Jugglers may effect illusions of the kind. The fourth act of the Ratnâvalî affords an instance of that indragâla.
[242] Anityâh sarvasamskârâh, one of the most popular sayings of the Lord.
[243] Properly speaking, the samskrita is the phenomenon, and the samskârâh are the 'fashions' or 'forms' of the perceptible objects as well as of the perceiving mind. But the latter term is not rarely likewise indicative of the things or objects (see Childers, Dictionary, s. v. samkhâro), and the former is here nearly a synonym of nâmarûpa.