[41] Oldenberg, p. 250; Barth, p. 110.
[42] Oldenberg, p. 314.
[43] Barth, p. 109. In the same way, Burnouf says, "I have the profound conviction that if Çâkya had not found about him a Pantheon already peopled with the gods just named, he would have felt no need of inventing them" (Introd. à l'hist. du bouddhisme indien, p. 119).
[44] Burnouf, op. cit., p. 117.
[45] Kern, op. cit., I, p. 289.
[46] "The belief, universally admitted in India, that great holiness is necessarily accompanied by supernatural faculties, is the only support which he (Çâkya) should find in spirits" (Burnouf, p. 119).
[47] Burnouf, p. 120.
[48] Ibid., p. 107.
[49] Ibid., p. 302.
[50] This is what Kern expresses in the following terms: "In certain regards, he is a man; in certain others, he is not a man; in others, he is neither the one nor the other" (op. cit., I, p. 290).