[22] Ancient Irish Poetry, p. 8. [↑]

[23] The Life and Exploits of Alexander the Great, trans. by E. Walter Budge, pp. 11 et seq., and 167 et seq. [↑]

[24] “Vana Parva” of Mahábhárata, and Indian Myth and Legend, pp. 105–9. [↑]

[25] Description of Sukhāvatī, the Land of Bliss, in Buddhist Mahayana Texts (Sacred Books of the East, Vol. XLIX), pp. 16, 17. [↑]

[26] Ibid., p. 35. [↑]

[27] Ibid., p. 56. [↑]

[28] Ibid., p. 174. [↑]

[29] Ibid., p. 180. [↑]

[30] Ibid., p. 50. [↑]

[31] B. Laufer, The Diamond (A Study in Chinese and Hellenistic Folk-lore) (Chicago, 1915). [↑]