[150] Avadâna is primarily a great and glorious act: hence an account of such an act.
[151] The Avadâna-śataka (Feer, Annales du Musée Guimet, XVIII) seems to be entirely Hinayanist.
[152] Edited by Senart, 3 vols. 1882-1897. Windisch, Die Komposition des Mahâvastu, 1909. Article "Mahavâstu" in E.R.E.
[153] So too do the words Horâpâthaka (astrologer), Ujjhebhaka (? Uzbek), Peliyaksha (? Felix). The word Yogâcâra (I. 120) may refer simply to the practice of Yoga and not to the school which bore this name.
[154] Edited by Cowell and Neil, 1886. See Nanjio, 1344.
[155] Edited by Bendall in Bibl. Buddhica.
[156] Nanjio, No. 1466. For a learned discussion of this work see Lévi and Chavannes in J.A. 1916, Nos. I and II.
[157] It is not likely that the Tathâgata-guhya-sûtra which it quotes is the same as the Tantra with a similar name analysed by Rajendralal Mitra.
[158] Watters, J.R.A.S. 1898, p. 331 says there seems to have been an earlier translation.
[159] Many works with this title will be found in Nanjio.