[539] Turfan and Kucha are spoken of as being mainly Hînayânist.
[540] See Stein, Zoroastrian deities on Indo-Scythian coins, 1887.
[541] See S.B.E. IV. (Vendîdad) pp. 145, 209; XXIII. p. 184, V. p. III.
[542] Chap. VII. The notices in Chaps. XXII. and XXIV. are rather more detailed but also later.
[543] XII. p. 23.
[544] Transl. Schiefner, pp. 93, 105 and 303, and Pander's Pantheon, No. 11. But Târanâtha also says that he was Aryadeva's pupil.
[545] Śara in Sanskrit.
[546] The doctrine of salvation by faith alone seems to be later. The longer and apparently older version of the Sukhâvatî Vyûha insists on good works as a condition of entry into Paradise.
[547] S.B.E. IV. p. 293; ib. XXXIII. pp. 317 and 344.
[548] It may also be noticed that Ameretât, the Archangel of immortality, presides over vegetation and that Amida's paradise is full of flowers.